Falkirk Provost Pat Reid joined the first young volunteer participants of Canal College at The Falkirk Wheel on Tuesday 11th June to celebrate the official start of the trailblazing canal-based skills training programme which will run for the next two years.
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I'VE ALWAYS said praise where praise is due and this time it is due to Upton Council for listening to the people on the ground, or in this case—on the water, who know, writes Keith Gudgin.
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If there is just one lock failure on the Aylesbury Arm, I for one will be happy, as happy as I will be if that is the only failure country wide, writes Maffi.
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THE new Love Your National Parks celebration, launched this week, has the backing of celebrity and Norfolk resident Stephen Fry.
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A FORMAL complaint has been made that Canal & River Trust's trustees are failing to ensure that minutes of Board meetings and associated documents are being published, writes Allan Richards.
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I DON'T know how much Maffi actually knows about the collapse of that lock on the Aylesbury Arm, other than speculation, but apparently specialists who have inspected the damage are most surprised to find that its construction is very different from others on the Arm, writes Alan Fincher.
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UPTON Town Council have vetoed the decision by Canal & River Trust to prevent boaters using the moorings on the Severn at Upton.
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SUSIE Mercer [Boating Trade Manager South who closed Upton moorings to boaters] is suggesting in a strong flow on the Severn that boaters should moor at Upper Lode Lock, writes Amy Dickerson.
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THE narrowboat Samshiba was stolen from Willow Moorings on the Soar sometime between late Sunday night 5th May and the early hours of Monday morning 6th May—the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (Stolen boat found) writes Pam Pickett.
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IN THE lead up to the formation of Canal & River Trust there was quite a bit of discord created when there was a secret move made by the transitional team for CaRT to be made exempt from the Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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