The top of the list of emails when we returned was no surprise—a waterway closed through a broken paddle!
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IT WAS a year ago that we passed through Barton Turns Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal and noticed the crumbling bank below the lock.
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NEARING our objective of Banbury, like many of you I should imagine we saw the Tesco Extra on Google off-side just North of the town, with an handy winding hole just after.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) have been embarrassed by the publication of a transcript of a court case, in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
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WHILE the men have been 'CaRT bashing', I have thought just give it time to get their act together—but enough is enough, writes She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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A year late, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has published the report that confirms that only one in four boaters feel they are respected by the Trust.
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SO TO the Oxford Canal yet again—the eighth time since 1998—and there are still plenty of boats moving, but now a preponderance of hire boats.
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HAVING told that General Towpath Mooring (GTM) permits were being discontinued because they 'had not worked very well last year' (No General Towpath Moorings this winter), Canal & River Trust (CaRT) have finally admitted the truth. They are illegal!
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THE start to our usual Autumn cruise started at Fradley Junction, for our Thomas, getting a little long in the tooth, dreads those six awkward broad locks from Derwent Mouth off the Trent, so gets someone to take the boat to the junction.
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SHORTLY after its formation some three years ago, Canal & River Trust was suggesting that about two thirds of boats without a home mooring were not compliant, but it is understood that only three boaters, Andy Wingfield, Tony Dunkley and Geoff Mayers have been ever been taken to court.
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