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Quarter of a million

FOR the first time our server has registered over quarter of a million visits to narrowboatworld within a month—253,853 within September.

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Published: 01 October 2012

A simple question

WITH regard to the CaRT/IWA partnership asking for donations for the breach on the Trent and Mersey Canal, can we ask a simple question? Writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 01 October 2012

Breach waiting to happen

AT THE beginning of this month I cruised along the northern section of the Trent & Mersey Canal, and somewhere in the region of Croxton Flash I passed a place where the canal was trickling across the towpath, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 01 October 2012

Onwards—ever onwards!

HAVING been thwarted by awful weather this week, I have had a few minutes to catch up on the activities amongst those southern stalwarts doing the ‘dirty' business on the southern canal restoration projects. What a heart-warming story it is too! Writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 30 September 2012

Email: Every right

Someone calling themselves John Wilkinson has every right to ask for information under the cover of the Freedom of Information Act or as a simple question to a manager.

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Published: 29 September 2012

Tied the knot

THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Canal & River Trust (CART) have finally tied the knot—with a Memorandum of Understanding, signed at CART's first public meeting yesterday (Thursday).

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Published: 28 September 2012

Email: Just wants the information

In response to what I consider to be a perfectly legitimate request made to a manager of CART, someone calling themselves 'Maffi' writes about a Freedom of Information request costing public money.

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Published: 28 September 2012

Still more marinas

THOUGH there are plans for a 600 berths marina at Onley, just above Braunston on the Oxford Canal, another is planned for Hawkesbury Junction.

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Published: 27 September 2012

More rubbish than last 30 years

I WRITE to echo the sentiments in the post 'Rubbish—Do It Yourself!' As a whole the rubbish count around the canal system is worse now than I can remember at any time in the last 30 years, writes  David Lyneham-Brown.

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Published: 27 September 2012

Misusing Freedom of Information Act

I AM sorry but neither British Waterways  nor Canal & River Trust are required by law to give the information being asked for by John Wilkinson. (How much does enforcement cost? Wednesday, 26 September 2012 10:3), writes Maffi.

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Published: 27 September 2012

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