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Another winter stoppage added to the list

THE required repairs to Lancaster Canal lock gates have been added to the winter list.

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Published: 25 November 2022

The means to an end?

IT WAS all too obvious that those figures from Canal & River Trust of billions of pounds of social and economic value of the waterways were going to created astonishment, writes James E Collins. (Pictured.)

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Published: 24 November 2022

No one blamed for damaged swing bridge

MAUD'S Swing Bridge on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal has been damaged.

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Published: 24 November 2022

Fantasy figures

THE £6.1 billion of pounds of annual economic and social value of the waterways claimed by CaRT is what they called white propaganda during the war, writes John Coxon.

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Published: 24 November 2022

New BBC's Birmingham home at canal basin

PLANS have been submitted for the BBC’s new home in Birmingham on the site of the historic Typhoo Building in Digbeth at the canal basin.

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Published: 23 November 2022

Those ridiculous 'statistics'

THOSE ridiculous statistics from Canal & River Trust, obviously to help it get funding, have generated many responses.

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Published: 23 November 2022

Stoppage notice was wrong

"AS THE failure of Wood End Lift Bridge has also been resolved, the Peak Forest is now completely open." you said on 26th October, writes Paul Burke.

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Published: 23 November 2022

Parliament debate on future funding of Canal & River Trust

YESTERDAY, 22nd November, the future of the UK’s canals and waterways, with a particular focus on the 2,000 miles cared for and looked after by the Canal & River Trust, was debated in the House of Commons, the trust records:

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Published: 23 November 2022

CaRT funding decision update

TWO weeks ago, narrowboatworld exclusively revealed that, having already defaulted in making a decision on CaRT's future funding by July 1st 2022, DEFRA had reneged on a new undertaking to make a decision this Autumn.

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Published: 21 November 2022

And there's more...

JUST had a peruse of the Boaters' Update, and talk about propaganda? It's unbeatable, writes James Henry.

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Published: 21 November 2022

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