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Building bridges

WITH Christmas looming, surely this is the time to build bridges between the various factions that use the waterways and their towpaths. So what is your suggestion? Here is the starting it off from our contributor Martin Brooks.

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Published: 15 December 2015

Email: Count the wildlife?

Terry Palmer is clearly right that 360,000,000 human visitors could not possibly visit the waterways each year.

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Published: 15 December 2015

Email: Not in Manchster

I can assure Terry Palmer that there are not twice as many visitors to the Manchester canals to make up for nearly none on the tidal part of the Trent.

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Published: 15 December 2015

The 'visitor' con

I CAN assure your correspondent Gillian Moore that the Canal & River Trust do state that its canals and rivers get 360,000,000 visitors a year, which is clearly shown in its 'propaganda', writes Terry Palmer. [We have received a number of such emails, using this one as an example.]

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Published: 15 December 2015

Leaving the waterways

WE RECEIVE many emails from boaters giving up their boating and leaving the waterways, but the prominent reason now is the scourge of the speeding cyclists on the towpaths, with June Phipps giving her reason:

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Published: 15 December 2015

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

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