THE Canal & River Trust have announced that its sham Ombudsman is to remain in office, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 30 March 2015

THERE are just two days left before the start of the official cruising season, and I am wondering if we will get to the end of the week without a stoppage, writes James Henry.

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Published: 30 March 2015

I have been completely away from the boating scene for the past few years, (out of the country) but my circumstances have changed and I will be joining a partner and taking delivery of a narrowboat come the 1st of April, though alas not a new one.

I of course came back with my introduction being narrowboatworld a few weeks ago (you included a couple of my emails in the past) but I was aghast at how what was then British Waterways has changed, as it seems the canals are low on the new company's list of priorities.

Everyone must realise that continuously cutting the cost spent on maintenance to spend on other things is no way to run the canals, as the increasing number of failures surely show.

I have the feeling that this new experience of the canals will not be as good as the last.

Jane Crowder

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Published: 30 March 2015

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

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

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