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Victor: What did you expect?

SO WE are getting more and more complaints of the voting for Cart Council, which much now rate as yet another of the Canal & River Trust's ever increasing fiascos.

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Published: 30 November 2015

Cyclist gets settlement

A CYCLIST has agreed a £65,000 settlement as a result of injuries caused by a dog on an extending lead fetching him off his bike.

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Published: 29 November 2015

CaRT organise Winter paddle

AS PART of Canal & River Trust's first ever coast to coast canoe project, it is organising two new spectacular ‘Santa Splash' family canoe paddles in Bootle and Burscough in December.

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Published: 27 November 2015

Email: Short term licence

I was interested to learn that the Environment Agency was thwarted in its demand for registration of boats that were in a private marina, but which raises an important question.

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Published: 27 November 2015

Email: Voting fiasco

I'm pleased someone had the guts to show that once again the election to the CaRT Council is a 'fiasco' as you rightly call it, as at our boating club there is someone who has received no code to vote in the Council elections either.

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Published: 27 November 2015

Council voting fiasco

WHAT I now find interesting is that we are supposed to have received codes to enable us to vote in the election for the CaRT Council. In my case I should have had a vote as a boat owner and one as a registered volunteer. I've had neither, writes Richard Hall.

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Published: 27 November 2015

Police searching city centre canals

THE police are searching the Birmingham city centre canals after a banker went missing after having a meal with colleagues at the Brasshouse pub on Broad Street late last Friday.

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Published: 27 November 2015

Another canalside pub under threat

THE Bridge at Napton (often referred to as the Napton Bridge), by bridge 111 of the Oxford Canal, has joined the list of pubs under threat from developers, writes David Hymers.

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Published: 26 November 2015

The Braunston Elsan

There seems to be some confusion about the Elsan at Braunston. The Elsan that is defective (the one that Mick Fitzgibbons wrote about earlier in the year) is the one by Midland Chandlers, writes Maffi Oxford.

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Published: 26 November 2015

'Suitcase' murderer found guilty

THE man who stuffed the body of his girlfriend into a suitcase and threw it into the Grand Union Canal has been found guilty of  murder and will be sentenced on Friday.

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Published: 25 November 2015

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