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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There are plenty of people ready to propose alternative structures for the payments which marinas have to pay to CaRT for the privilege of connecting their marinas to the canal network. Without this agreement, anyone mooring their boat in the marina would have nowhere to go, writes Mike Todd.
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THE Canal & River Trust has engaged television personality Penny Smith in its endeavour to promote more volunteer lock keepers.
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EACH time someone on narrowboatworld has a go at continuous cruisers (aka, now, boaters 'without a home mooring'), I feel the need to balance out some of the thinking behind the jibes, writes Suzanne MacLeod.
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ONE can't help, but feel sorry for Paul Lillie (Pillings' Managing Director) writes John Kelly.
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THIS gentleman [Paul Lillie of Pillings Lock Marina] has complained that boats are leaving his marina to continuously cruise, within CaRT's regulations obviously, writes Martin Brooks.
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MUCH as been written, by many people about the Pillings Marina débâcle, so here is the story from the 'horses mouth'—its Managing Director, Paul Lillie:
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IF THE Notices I receive from CaRT regarding closures and emergencies are anything to go by, then they seem to be doing a pretty good job with the problems caused by the floods.
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THE Canal & River Trust marina subsidiary, BWML now says that it will not evict vulnerable boater Rod Taylor from its Poplar Dock Marina if he abides by the terms and conditions of his mooring agreement, writes Allan Richards.
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