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Five years of aggro

AFTER being on the canal system for 16 years, I can honestly say that this has been the worst five years of my life, thanks to CaRT, writes Sue Whyke.
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Published: 19 March 2015

Email: Start of our problems

Sitting with Nelly is only the start of our problems.  You have sat and learned from Nelly and you are deemed well enough trained so sent out on your own.

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Published: 19 March 2015

Can we cruise?

Over the past few weeks I have been planning the couple of summer cruises we will be taking, but having read about all the stoppages, I'm thinking "will we get back from cruising or be stuck behind a stoppage?", writes James Henry.

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Published: 19 March 2015

K&A still closed

THE Kennet & Avon Canal is still closed near Newbury owing to the structural failure of Higgs Lock (83).

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Published: 19 March 2015

CaRT's ten years plan

THE Canal & River Trust now has a ten years plan, with its Chief Executive, Richard Parry to explain it at a meeting at the end of April.

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Published: 19 March 2015

Email: Nail on the head

Mick Fitzgibbons certainly hits the nail on the head (Sitting with Nelly) and this explains a whole raft of things.
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Published: 19 March 2015

CaRT offices open longer

IT SEEMS that at last the people at Canal & River Trust are listening to its customers who have been complaining that it offices are often closed during the day.

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Published: 18 March 2015

Fast ride on the B&F

HERE is a fast cycle ride on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal at 4:30pm in the afternoon between between Aston Junction and Salford Junction (under Spaghetti Junction).

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Published: 18 March 2015

Drunk steerer smashes into boats

A DRUNK steerer of a narrowboat caused havoc on the Shropshire Union Canal when she careered at full speed along the waterway smashing into moored boats and eventually ramming one head on causing thousands of pound worth of damage.

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Published: 18 March 2015

Sitting with Nelly

IN THE article (Symptom of a much larger malaise) Bill Ridgeway put his finger on the nub of one problem when it comes to inexperienced new graduates, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 18 March 2015

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