FOLLOWING its failure to recruit 7,000 'friends' in its first year by using a professional agency, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) is now resorting to recruiting its chuggers itself in the London area, writes Allan Richards.
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IT WAS the very timely rescue by a passer-by that prevented yet another disaster in the Avon at Bath.
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IT WAS announced today (Thursday) that £2 millions is to be spent on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal as the centrepiece of a creative corridor for the arts.
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LAST week-end's Canal Boat Festival at Loughborough was a success, helped by the glorious weather.
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HERE are the dates of the work parties for June, organised by the various branches of the Inland Waterways Association.
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WHILST I welcome a new face on the Bridge (or should that be hand on the Helm?), I looked in vain for a relationship Richard [Parry] may have had with a charity, writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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Regarding Robert Hawkins' email, by the looks of it, did not read my comment thoroughly.
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I read with interest the comment that the IWA should relinquish the seats of its members who were elected to the [CaRT] council.
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EX HIRE narrowboat, 60ft Samshiba, was stolen from its moorings at Kegworth on the Soar—it's thought in the early hours of last Monday morning, writes Pam Pickett.
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WE ARE getting reports of work being doing on removing vegetation from the sides of the waterways, and many in a better condition after winter work.
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