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All in marinas

THE cat is fully out of the bag now. CaRT wants everyone in marinas, bar none, writes Martin Brooks.

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Published: 20 March 2015

Idiotic new licence rules?

THE Canal & River Trust proposes on 1st April (wish it was an April Fool, but alas not) to amend the Boat Licence conditions so that boat licences will only be renewed if a mooring is available for the entire period of the licence, writes Stuart Field.

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Published: 20 March 2015

The funding gap

I FIND myself in complete agreement with Orph Mabel regarding the decline in maintenance on Canal & River Trust (CaRT) waterways (Halting the maintenance decline), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 20 March 2015

Five years of aggro

AFTER being on the canal system for 16 years, I can honestly say that this has been the worst five years of my life, thanks to CaRT, writes Sue Whyke.
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Published: 19 March 2015

Email: Start of our problems

Sitting with Nelly is only the start of our problems.  You have sat and learned from Nelly and you are deemed well enough trained so sent out on your own.

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Published: 19 March 2015

Can we cruise?

Over the past few weeks I have been planning the couple of summer cruises we will be taking, but having read about all the stoppages, I'm thinking "will we get back from cruising or be stuck behind a stoppage?", writes James Henry.

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Published: 19 March 2015

K&A still closed

THE Kennet & Avon Canal is still closed near Newbury owing to the structural failure of Higgs Lock (83).

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Published: 19 March 2015

CaRT's ten years plan

THE Canal & River Trust now has a ten years plan, with its Chief Executive, Richard Parry to explain it at a meeting at the end of April.

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Published: 19 March 2015

Email: Nail on the head

Mick Fitzgibbons certainly hits the nail on the head (Sitting with Nelly) and this explains a whole raft of things.
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Published: 19 March 2015

CaRT offices open longer

IT SEEMS that at last the people at Canal & River Trust are listening to its customers who have been complaining that it offices are often closed during the day.

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Published: 18 March 2015

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