THE Canal & River Trust has reluctantly concluded that roving mooring permits, which it was proposing to introduce in two local areas from April 2014, cannot be used to deal with localised issues of mooring congestion on the waterways.
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IT MAY be correct what Caroline Killeavy of the Canal & River Trust says that no paid permanent lock keepers have been made redundant because they were to be replaced by volunteers, writes Ian Waters.
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I am not sure that Allan Richards is being entirely fair to British Waterways in his article. Quite frankly I am not surprised by the optimism displayed in 2006 by the British Waterways New Marinas Unit, writes Tony Collins.
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JOHN Howard asks if the Canal & River Trust pay celebrities. I can assure him that Penny Smith and Brian Blessed were paid precisely nothing for their help, Caroline Killeavy from the Trust tells us.
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A NARROWBOAT stolen from moorings on Zouch Cut on the Soar was later discovered trapped on Kegworth Deep Lock weir.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) flagship Sawley Marina on the Trent at Long Eaton is leading the meltdown of inland marina berth occupancy, writes Allan Richards.
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A DIRECTOR of a recycling company was given an eight months jail sentence, yesterday (Tuesday) and his company fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £7,500 in costs for polluting the Erewash Canal.
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PART of the towpath and moorings below Barton Turn Lock at Bridge 38 have slipped into the Trent & Mersey Canal, together with the towpath, Ralph Freeman tells us.
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ONCE again the staff and customers of Marks & Spencer are giving their time in a big clean-up of the beaches and canals.
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IN RELATION To Canal & River Trust (CaRT) making payments to celebrities to promote volunteer lock keepers, John Howard asks ‘Maybe one of your narrowboatworld sleuths might be able to find out', writes Allan Richards.
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