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Two BCN Explorer Cruises

AFTER the success of its many previous cruises, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is to hold two cruises again in 2016 to encourage boaters to explore the city's canals.

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Published: 15 December 2015

Is CaRT's recycling a con?

ONE of the reasons that I moved onto a boat was to be closer to nature, writes Gareth Haines.

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Published: 10 December 2015

CaRT vice chairman to go?

LYNNE BERRY, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) vice chairman, will be amongst a number of trustees to stand down or retire over the coming months, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 December 2015

Ruffled a few feathers

IT COMES as no surprise that my recent article ruffled a few feathers. It was designed to do exactly that! Writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 10 December 2015

Four new trustees required

THE Canal & River Trust requires four new trustees to join its non-executive Board, who are 'responsible for setting the charity's strategic direction, and play an important role in helping the organisation to attract new investment and to develop new opportunities'.

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Published: 10 December 2015

Boy's 'dare' cost National Grid £2m

THE pipe attached to Dugdale Bridge over the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Burnley has for the past 110 years been a 'dare' for children, but one fell and drowned, which has cost the National Grid £2 millions.

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Published: 10 December 2015

Surely not right

Though I will agree with James Henry about how the voting for the [Canal & River Trust] Council has been run, surely his example of 360,000,000 visitors a year to the canals cannot be correct, writes Gillian Moore.

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Published: 09 December 2015

Can we trust the results?

Having read the varies fiascos, as you well call them, about the voting for Canal & River Trust Council, I just wonder just how much we can trust the results? Asks James Henry.

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Published: 09 December 2015

NBTA wins Council voting extension

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has apologised to the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) and extended its Council election for a further six days.

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Published: 09 December 2015

CaRT voting fiasco gets worse

IT WAS last Friday that Canal & River Trust (CaRT) reminded boaters that voting would close in the Trust's Council elections at 23.59 on Friday 11th December.

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Published: 09 December 2015

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