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Dredging—for plants

DREDGING has commenced on the Grantham Canal, but not to improve the waterway for boats but to encourage the growth of a rare plant.

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Published: 16 December 2014

Waterways for all

INTERESTING piece concerning cyclists. The way Canal & River Trust ploughs on regardless on its mission: 'Waterways for All' makes me wonder what its mandate is, writes Howard Clarke.

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Published: 16 December 2014

Want a Boating Families Group

THOUGH holding continuous cruiser licences, moorers at Hackney on the Lee have formed a Hackney Boating Families group and want to be able to stay in one place and not move every 14 days as they agreed when taking out their licences.

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Published: 16 December 2014

Towpath users need educating

I'M A BOATER, cyclist and am heavily involved in the canal restoration movement, but it grieves me to say, as a (courteous) regular towpath cyclist, that cyclists are, by and large a problem on towpaths, writes Tony Jackson.

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Published: 16 December 2014

Dutton has leaked since being repaired

IF THE locals living near the breach on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Dutton are to be believed it has been leaking ever since it was repaired in 2012.

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Published: 16 December 2014

Shock number of closures

THE Canal & River Trust has finally released the number of unplanned closures to its waterways last year—1,647 days!

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Published: 13 December 2014

Abseiling on the Pontcysyllte

THERE is only one way to get rid of the vegetation that is growing in the crevasses of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen canal, and that is by abseiling.

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Published: 12 December 2014

Parry on Mayers

IT IS PLEASING to see Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Chief Executive, Richard Parry, enter the debate concerning the Trust's failure to publish the court's findings in the case of Geoff Mayers (CaRT court orders and judgments), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 12 December 2014

CaRT Court Orders and Judgments

WE ARE told that the policy of Canal & River Trust is to publish all Court Orders on its website, but not detailed Court Judgments, and we have received a statement from its Chief Executive, Richard Parry, confirming this:

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Published: 11 December 2014

Email: Ambushed

I was one of those who voted in your poll last night, that I thought was a good idea, as it gave us boaters a chance to make our feelings known, but was annoyed that it was ambushed.

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Published: 11 December 2014

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