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Student drowns as 999 call missed

OWING to a 999 call being missed by operators, the emergency services arrived too late to save a student who had fallen in the Avon from drowning.

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Published: 17 January 2015

Dean was the man

TO MY mind Dean Davis was one of the best managers the Canal & River Trust had, always willing to help boaters and putting himself out to do so, writes James Henry.

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Published: 16 January 2015

Email: Not necessary

During the summer I had my boat moored by the flats at Brentford, [Grand Union Canal] and took particular notice of the passage of narrowboats either on to or off the Thames.

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Published: 16 January 2015

Grant for Chesterfield Canal lock

PLANS to install new lock gates on a lock in Staveley on the Chesterfield Canal can now go ahead thanks to a funding  from the Veolia Environmental Trust.

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Published: 15 January 2015

Shedding no tears

I FOR one will certainly shed no tears over the loss of Phil Spencer, CaRT's erstwhile Head of Business Boating. That he argued that Canal & River Trust was in total ownership of our waterways and could therefore do as it liked did nothing to warm me to him, or to the Trust, writes Pam Pickett.

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Published: 15 January 2015

Lock keepers for unused canal!

THE Canal & River Trust is surpassing itself in it sheer stupidity—it is asking for volunteer lock keepers for a Cornish waterway that powered boats cannot access!

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Published: 15 January 2015

Waiting too long?

IT WOULD seem that Canal & River Trust is quite concerned about boaters having to wait too long at its stoppages.

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Published: 14 January 2015

Boating head to be replaced

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) is replacing the manager responsible for the floating bookshop scandal (CaRT to close floating bookshop), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 14 January 2015

Narrowboat arson attack

A NARROWBOAT has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack at Wednesfield on the Wyrley & Essington Canal.

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Published: 14 January 2015

Keeping it in the family

AN IMPORTANT consultation concerning the Liverpool Link by Canal & River Trust has led to complaints from waterway organisations that it has been 'kept in the family' with only the IWA being involved.

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Published: 14 January 2015

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