WITHIN hours of the narrowboatworld article being published calling for Canal and River Trust's mooring auctions to be scrapped (Scrap them both) a petition has been started asking Cart's Trustees to withdraw its mooring consultation, writes Allan Richards.
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IT IS very good news that Fradley Junction will no longer be so badly affected by the route of the new HS2 railway, thanks to the IWA commissioning an engineering firm to design a different route that will actually be cheaper.
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THIS time it is the quadrant to the towpath side tail gate under a balance beam that has collapsed.
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FOR those of you who would like to see what the Chesterfield Canal Trust has done over the years, there are full day return cruises on the restored waterway, with plenty of choices.
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THIS time there is a boat well and truly stuck in Ironbridge Lock at Rickmansworth on the Grand Union Canal.
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FOLLOWING the sinking of the narrowboat at lock 23A at Dobcross last month, yet another has been caught out and sunk in the same lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) should take note of of the recent All Party Parliamentary Group for Waterways (APPG Waterways) report and scrap its hated moorings auctions system and its Waterway Partnerships, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Canal & River Trust is inviting people to take part in a new consultation about how it sells its long-term moorings.
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OUR experience of the volunteers, over the summer has been largely positive, writes Martin Howes.
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I really cannot see the problem. Watermate Keys and vandal keys have always been readily available from chandlers, local shops, waterway offices and adjacent businesses. I cannot recall ever having been asked if I am entitled to one.
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