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Email: Don't get trampled

My wife and I have just had a few days meandering down the Grand Union Canal towards Berkhamsted, and though I would like to confirm Canal & River Trust's calculation of its visitor numbers, I'm very much afraid that I cannot.

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Published: 15 April 2016

Email: Boat show numbers

Do you think that perhaps CaRT is calculating those hundreds of millions of visitors by multiplying the number at boat shows?

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Published: 15 April 2016

Swing bridge operational

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal Methodist Swing Bridge (15) at Maghull is now operational again.

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Published: 15 April 2016

This is ridiculous

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has now released a new figure of the visitors to its waterways during 2015, that is impossible to believe.

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Published: 14 April 2016

A sorry tale of CaRT's incompetence

THIS is a summary of what has happened to my boat Tadworth, (the historic big Northwich motor) writes Richard Churchill.

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Published: 13 April 2016

An effective use of charitable funds?

I HAVE received several comments in past months that CaRT is very generous in its use of charity funds, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 13 April 2016

Stranded on Severn weir

A BOATER lost control of his narrowboat at Diglis Lock on the Severn with it smashing into the weir boom, from where he had to be rescued.

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Published: 13 April 2016

More closures

THOUGH only Wednesday, there are two more closures on the system already this week and Braunston Elsan disposal is blocked again, Keith Gudgin reports.

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Published: 13 April 2016

Dragons on the Leeds & Liverpool

TWO dragon boat crews are taking on the whole length of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in an endurance race to raise funds for volunteers to transport vital medical supplies between hospitals.

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Published: 11 April 2016

More engineers at River Canal Rescue

DESPITE losing its premises, stock and membership documents in a neighbouring firework factory fire in October 2014, River Canal Rescue (RCR) continues to go from strength to strength, having recently appointed four additional engineers and three office-based staff.

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Published: 11 April 2016

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