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Heads and tales

WITH Canal & River Trust (CaRT) advertising to replace two of Chief Executive Richard Parry's direct reports, we ask ‘who is next to go?', writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Downing Street award for WRG worker

A WATERWAYS Recovery Group (WRG) member who has worked on over 500 miles of the country's waterways restoration schemes and who now leads canal ‘camps' for people to help build their confidence and learn new skills is the winner of a new volunteering award, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Email: Using limited moorings

I was most pleased to read Victor Swift's exposure of the way the hire firm at Gunthorpe Bridge was using the limited moorings for its own use.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Email: Enforcement

Your report on overstaying boats at Gunthorpe raises the question as to whether the enforcement officer concerned is applying the rules impartially or showing favouritism to a few boaters whilst harassing others.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Email: Ill and infirm

Catching up on your stories, those about the treatment of ill and infirm people by Canal & River Trust as told by your correspondents I found most disgusting.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Walk on the Wild Side

KENT doesn't readily spring to mind for inland boating so the Medway is perhaps not given much thought by most canal users, writes Alan Tilbury.

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Published: 08 November 2014

Live grenade in Regent's Canal

THE clean-up of the Regent's Canal has unearth some peculiar objects that have been dumped in the water, but a live grenade beats them all.

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Published: 07 November 2014

The real explanation

IN THE article concerning the Cotswold Canals (Cotswold Canals development) you ask what director speak 'contemporary design responds very much to its place' means, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 07 November 2014

What's in a name

I HAVE always wondered why the 'old guard' ejected from British Waterways chose a new name like CaRT, when there were much better and much more meaningful names available, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 06 November 2014

Cotswold Canals development

HOUSE builders on the derelict Cotswold Canals are realising the advantage of a restored waterway in boosting prices, and now there is a plan being put forward to build on waste ground by the side of the Cotswold Canals in Stroud.

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Published: 06 November 2014

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