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Chance to experience the restored Chesterfield Canal

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust is starting its boat trips this Easter week-end, giving a chance to experience the restored section of the Chesterfield Canal.

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Published: 26 March 2018

Victor: The unthinkable

I AM about to state the unthinkable!

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Published: 25 March 2018

It's hundreds of millions!

It is not thousands that walk the towpath, Joanne, but hundreds of millions we are told by CaRT.  We must all have seen the (what is it?) 600 odd walkers every mile every day over the last couple of weeks, now haven't we?

Jane Philips

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Published: 23 March 2018

Solve the problem of funds

Why can't CaRT collect 50p from each of the thousands they tell us walk the towpath everyday and that would solve the problem of funding.

Joanne Evans, Nb Cuckoo Land.

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Published: 23 March 2018

Reversing the trend

A COUPLE HAVE reversed the trend of web trading from home by opening a store at a marina.

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Published: 23 March 2018

Advisory groups' bandwagon

I HOPE you will allow me to congratulate John Coxon on his excellent article on the way that CaRT wastes its money, writes James Henry.

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Published: 23 March 2018

What a bloody cheek!

I UNDERSTAND that CaRT have launched an emergency fundraising campaign to pay for the repairs to the breach at Middlewich. I say what a bloody cheek! Writes John Coxon.

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Published: 22 March 2018

Out comes the begging bowl again!

AS WAS predicted by narrowboatworld, Canal & River Trust has brought out the begging bowl again, expecting the public to pay for the breach on the Middlewich Branch.

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Published: 22 March 2018

Got on with the job

I HAVE just seen the page where Canal & River Trust demeans itself by asking for money to repair the breach at Middlewich, writes, James Henry.

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Published: 22 March 2018

GRP still feeling the pinch

IT WAS in 2014 when the boat building bubble burst, with boat builder after boat builder going out of business.

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Published: 22 March 2018

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