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Email: Crick Show

I am sorry to to contradict Edwin Deacon when he says that Canal & River Trust can count the 10,000 that go to Crick Show as visitors to the towpath, as they are not.

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Published: 15 April 2016

Visitor telephone survey scrapped

WE HAVE learned that the telephone survey used to calculate visitor numbers for Canal & River Trust has been scrapped, as it was not showing enough visitors!

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Published: 15 April 2016

Darren Green goes

THE Waterways Manager for Central Shires, Darren Green, is leaving Canal & River Trust after 16 years.

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Published: 15 April 2016

Email: Don't get trampled

My wife and I have just had a few days meandering down the Grand Union Canal towards Berkhamsted, and though I would like to confirm Canal & River Trust's calculation of its visitor numbers, I'm very much afraid that I cannot.

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Published: 15 April 2016

Email: Boat show numbers

Do you think that perhaps CaRT is calculating those hundreds of millions of visitors by multiplying the number at boat shows?

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Published: 15 April 2016

Swing bridge operational

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal Methodist Swing Bridge (15) at Maghull is now operational again.

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Published: 15 April 2016

This is ridiculous

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has now released a new figure of the visitors to its waterways during 2015, that is impossible to believe.

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Published: 14 April 2016

A sorry tale of CaRT's incompetence

THIS is a summary of what has happened to my boat Tadworth, (the historic big Northwich motor) writes Richard Churchill.

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Published: 13 April 2016

An effective use of charitable funds?

I HAVE received several comments in past months that CaRT is very generous in its use of charity funds, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 13 April 2016

Stranded on Severn weir

A BOATER lost control of his narrowboat at Diglis Lock on the Severn with it smashing into the weir boom, from where he had to be rescued.

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Published: 13 April 2016

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