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Email: Should get the sack

If those bonuses were based on the directors doing a good job and keeping the waterways in good condition they deserve only one thing, and that is the sack, with no golden handshake or over bloated pension.

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Published: 19 August 2011

Email: Priority is pedestrians

You may want to direct your correspondent  to the Waterscape web site regarding cyclists on towpaths.

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Published: 19 August 2011

Email: Congestion

Not so long ago, British Waterways' Sally Ash (Head of Boating—huh?) told a meeting of those concerned about allowing more new marinas that there is no quantifiable method to measure 'congestion'.

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Published: 19 August 2011

Union's disgust at bonuses

FOLLOWING the news in narrowboatworld that British Waterways directors are awarding themselves a bonus for failure, whilst giving its workers a pittance award, Robin Evans maintains it is recognising the directors' performance.

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Published: 18 August 2011

Duckweed takes over Regent's Canal

WITH very little boat movement in the city, duckweed is taking over the Regent's Canal.

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Published: 18 August 2011

Rushing about

IT IS our Ralph Freeman who tells us there are many boaters in a 'blazing hurry' on the Trent & Mersey Canal at the moment.

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Published: 18 August 2011

BW to sell occupied cottages

A ROW of 19 cottages by the Severn at Sharpness, owned by British Waterways, is to be auctioned off with sitting tenants.

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Published: 18 August 2011

Email: Effective notice

I was pleased to learn that Brian [Holmes] had a trouble free passage on the Trent & Mersey Canal through the IWA Festival site at Burton-on-Trent at the end of July.

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Published: 18 August 2011

Trent & Mersey Canal closed

THE busy Trent & Mersey Canal is closed at its eastern end as a boat has sunk in the broad Weston Lock. Lastest: The boat has been removed and the navigation is now open.

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Published: 18 August 2011

Trent bridge too expensive

THE plans for what has been called 'a silly bridge' over the Trent at Gainsborough have been scrapped.

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Published: 17 August 2011

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