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CaRT's incompetent licensing team

DOES anyone else have problems with Canal & River Trust's so called 'Boat Licensing Team'? asks Richard Swan.

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Published: 11 June 2015

Replacing damaged spindles

A SPOKESMAN for Canal & River Trust states that there is to be a meeting with boaters to discuss new designs for pawl catches and the replacement of spindles on paddle gear.

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Published: 11 June 2015

Montgomery closed

ASTON Locks on the Montgomery Canal have sprung a leak, and though Canal & River Trust state that a temporary repair has been made, the waterway is still stated as being closed.

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Published: 11 June 2015

Another K&A stoppage

STILL another Kennet & Avon Canal stoppage, this time its a swing bridge—Tyle Mill Swing Bridge, by Tyle Mill Lock.

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Published: 10 June 2015

Floating bookshop can stay

IT MAY be remembered that Canal & River Trust refused London's only floating bookshop, Word on the Water, application for a permanent mooring, (CaRT to close floating bookshop) forcing its closure, but the resulting publicity has caused CaRT to change its decision.

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Published: 10 June 2015

CaRT is 'Completely barmy' says MP

THE MP for South Staffordshire, Gavin Williamson, has called a decision by the Canal & River Trust 'completely barmy' for refusing to remove graffiti from one of its canal bridges.

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Published: 10 June 2015

Deserted on the Soar

THE fleet of Shakespeare Classic Line Boats, formerly operated out of Mercia Marina by the Avante Leisure Group is now strung-out along the Soar.

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Published: 10 June 2015

Contractor will pay for bodged repair

THE leak at Dutton on the Trent & Mersey Canal was a bodged repair with Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Council members being told that contractor Kier accepts responsibility for the incident, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 June 2015

The reality of those K&A boats?

BOATER Chris Pink was somewhat concerned by the fact that the BBC film giving a two hours cruised along the Kennet & Avon Canal from Bath is used  by some to show there are 'hundreds of continuous moorers' along the waterway, and supplied us with the following from the Trust.

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Published: 10 June 2015

More canal pollution

THE Nottingham Canal is closed from Castle Lock to its junction with the Trent at Meadow Lane Lock due to pollution.

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Published: 10 June 2015

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