I REALISE that to impress the government Canal & River Trust have to make out that there are millions of people using the canal towpaths, as it of course makes it look as though the canals are loved by everyone, and so helps to impress the government to give it money, writes Yvonne Towers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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