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New financial director for CaRT

AS FROM this week, Canal & River Trust (CaRT) will have a new Finance Director, Sandra Kelly, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 30 March 2015

Half finished jetty danger

IT IS six months ago that a jetty was left half-completed in Market Drayton on the Shropshire Union Canal, and is a danger, especially to children.

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Published: 27 March 2015

Rosy mist of nostalgia

IT RATTLES me when I read of the disastrous decline in canal infrastructure since the emergence of CaRT. It's as though some folk are looking at the past through a rosy mist of nostalgia that never even existed, writes Eric Weiss.
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Published: 27 March 2015

Underground Eggsibition

THE Dudley Canal Tunnel and Limestone Mines are putting on a special display this Easter holiday, as they decorate the tunnels and caverns with hundreds of eggs hand-painted by local school children.

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Published: 27 March 2015

Concert at London Canal Museum

A CONCERT by the renowned harpist Catrin Finch is to be given at the London Waterway Museum to raise funds for WaterAid.

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Published: 27 March 2015

Staffs & Worcs open again

THE stoppage at Debdale Lock on the Staffs & Worcs caused by the deteriorating condition of a gate (Staffs & Worcs closed) has now been lifted after work has been completed.

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Published: 27 March 2015

£600,000 to heat NT house

THE BBC reports that the Trust has spent £600,000 on a marine source heat pump to heat a National Trust property.

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Published: 27 March 2015

CaRT's Soviet ten years plan

THERE is a belief that living aboard a boat can provide a close approximation to an aspirational and idyllic style of life. But like many things viewed from a distance—when you get in close, you come to realise that idyllic is not the right word, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 27 March 2015

Timothy & Pru a danger

I AM appalled by the actions and attitude of Timothy and Pru West. They are a danger to themselves and other canal users as they crash their way around the system, writes John Wallace.

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Published: 26 March 2015

Trip boat volunteers wanted

THE Friends of the Cromford Canal, that operate the 76 years old narrowboat Birdswood are looking to engage more volunteers to operated the boat during the season.

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Published: 26 March 2015

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