HAVING a toll for the use of Stanground and Salter Lode locks has the support of local boat owners as the most cost effected method of raising funds to cover the lock keepers' wages and the care and repair of the locks, write Kelvin Alexander Duggan.
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VICTOR'S comments about the condition of the Cheshire Locks on the Trent & Mersey Canal—better known as Heartbreak Hill—has brought criticism, pointing out the work of Inland Waterways Association volunteers.
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THE two historic boats Mendip and Gifford have left the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port on a trip to the Lymm Historic Transport Day.
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THE reversal of the decision to use the 'safe haven' moorings at Upton-on-Severn for sole use of a trip boat has been published, Amy Dickerson tells us.
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IT SEEMS that a common thread has appeared on various forums—the mystery surrounding Robin Evans and his less than usual method of departure from Canal & River Trust, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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IT HAS been discovered that Canal & River Trust (CaRT) does not have the specific powers to introduce the 'no return' mooring rules, and that the former British Waterways was refused such powers.
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WHILE I appreciate Keith Gudgin's environmental concerns over CaRT grass cutting debris ending up in the canal, my objection to CaRT contractors' practices is to their regular plastering of moored boats with strimmed vegetation., writes Dave Chipchase.
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YOUR contributors appear to have difficulty understanding the—apparently—contradictory messages issued by Canal & River Trust, writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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THE end of Robin Evans' ten years of service as chief executive of Britain's largest waterways authority has passed without the normal fanfare that one would expect, writes Allan Richards.
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