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Parry on Mayers

IT IS PLEASING to see Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Chief Executive, Richard Parry, enter the debate concerning the Trust's failure to publish the court's findings in the case of Geoff Mayers (CaRT court orders and judgments), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 12 December 2014

CaRT Court Orders and Judgments

WE ARE told that the policy of Canal & River Trust is to publish all Court Orders on its website, but not detailed Court Judgments, and we have received a statement from its Chief Executive, Richard Parry, confirming this:

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Published: 11 December 2014

Email: Ambushed

I was one of those who voted in your poll last night, that I thought was a good idea, as it gave us boaters a chance to make our feelings known, but was annoyed that it was ambushed.

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Published: 11 December 2014

Don't want you to know

MOST readers will not have realised, but at 7pm yesterday (Wednesday) we launched a poll, asking the simple question 'Is Cart fit for purpose'.

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Published: 11 December 2014

The meeting that never was

OVER a month ago Canal & River Trust (CaRT) met with national boating associations, to a meeting that never was, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 December 2014

Boater saved driver's life

IF A boater had not seen a car hurtling into the Trent yesterday (Tuesday) the driver would most likely have lost his life.

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Published: 10 December 2014

Keppel gets its money

THE Etruria Boat Group at Stoke-on-Trent are celebrating as work starts on Keppel, the historic canal narrowboat they are restoring to use for education and other community activities along the canals of the Potteries.

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Published: 10 December 2014

Out of control?

I THINK we all have been quite concerned over the past few years to read how increasingly CaRT seem to be blinkered in its attitude to boaters and its application (or interpretation) of the 1995 Waterways Act, writes John Howard.

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Published: 10 December 2014

Trip boats cruise vouchers

A GOOD idea by the Chesterfield Canal Trust to fill it trip boats and help swell its funds, is cruise vouchers.

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Published: 10 December 2014

Navigating or not?

Some of the comments about the CaRT v Mayers judgement (CaRT's CC rules are unlawful) seem at odds with what the judge actually said in his judgement, writes John Kelly.

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Published: 10 December 2014

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