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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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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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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THE Canal & River Trust has finally released the number of unplanned closures to its waterways last year—1,647 days!
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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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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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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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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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MOST readers will not have realised, but at 7pm yesterday (Wednesday) we launched a poll, asking the simple question 'Is Cart fit for purpose'.
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OVER a month ago Canal & River Trust (CaRT) met with national boating associations, to a meeting that never was, writes Allan Richards.
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