I CAN assure your correspondent Gillian Moore that the Canal & River Trust do state that its canals and rivers get 360,000,000 visitors a year, which is clearly shown in its 'propaganda', writes Terry Palmer. [We have received a number of such emails, using this one as an example.]
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WE RECEIVE many emails from boaters giving up their boating and leaving the waterways, but the prominent reason now is the scourge of the speeding cyclists on the towpaths, with June Phipps giving her reason:
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AFTER the success of its many previous cruises, the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is to hold two cruises again in 2016 to encourage boaters to explore the city's canals.
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ONE of the reasons that I moved onto a boat was to be closer to nature, writes Gareth Haines.
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LYNNE BERRY, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) vice chairman, will be amongst a number of trustees to stand down or retire over the coming months, writes Allan Richards.
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IT COMES as no surprise that my recent article ruffled a few feathers. It was designed to do exactly that! Writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE Canal & River Trust requires four new trustees to join its non-executive Board, who are 'responsible for setting the charity's strategic direction, and play an important role in helping the organisation to attract new investment and to develop new opportunities'.
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THE pipe attached to Dugdale Bridge over the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Burnley has for the past 110 years been a 'dare' for children, but one fell and drowned, which has cost the National Grid £2 millions.
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Though I will agree with James Henry about how the voting for the [Canal & River Trust] Council has been run, surely his example of 360,000,000 visitors a year to the canals cannot be correct, writes Gillian Moore.
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Having read the varies fiascos, as you well call them, about the voting for Canal & River Trust Council, I just wonder just how much we can trust the results? Asks James Henry.
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