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Six winter projects open to the public

THIS winter Canal & River Trust is organising Open Days showing the work being undertaken.

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Published: 28 November 2022

Victor reckons funding isn't looking too good for CaRT

THERE is little doubt that's Allan Richards analysis of how the government is dragging its feet over CaRT's funding is looking bad for the trust.

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Published: 26 November 2022

Decision 'forthwith' on CaRT funding

REBECCA Pow, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Environmental Quality and Resilience), attended a debate on the future of the UK's canals and waterways on Tuesday 22nd November 2022.

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Published: 25 November 2022

Public access to the Wey at Guildford at last

THERE has been little public access to the Wey in the centre of Guildford, but this it about to change, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 25 November 2022

Another winter stoppage added to the list

THE required repairs to Lancaster Canal lock gates have been added to the winter list.

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Published: 25 November 2022

The means to an end?

IT WAS all too obvious that those figures from Canal & River Trust of billions of pounds of social and economic value of the waterways were going to created astonishment, writes James E Collins. (Pictured.)

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Published: 24 November 2022

No one blamed for damaged swing bridge

MAUD'S Swing Bridge on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal has been damaged.

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Published: 24 November 2022

Fantasy figures

THE £6.1 billion of pounds of annual economic and social value of the waterways claimed by CaRT is what they called white propaganda during the war, writes John Coxon.

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Published: 24 November 2022

New BBC's Birmingham home at canal basin

PLANS have been submitted for the BBC’s new home in Birmingham on the site of the historic Typhoo Building in Digbeth at the canal basin.

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Published: 23 November 2022

Those ridiculous 'statistics'

THOSE ridiculous statistics from Canal & River Trust, obviously to help it get funding, have generated many responses.

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Published: 23 November 2022

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