JOHN Howard asks if the Canal & River Trust pay celebrities. I can assure him that Penny Smith and Brian Blessed were paid precisely nothing for their help, Caroline Killeavy from the Trust tells us.
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A NARROWBOAT stolen from moorings on Zouch Cut on the Soar was later discovered trapped on Kegworth Deep Lock weir.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) flagship Sawley Marina on the Trent at Long Eaton is leading the meltdown of inland marina berth occupancy, writes Allan Richards.
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A DIRECTOR of a recycling company was given an eight months jail sentence, yesterday (Tuesday) and his company fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £7,500 in costs for polluting the Erewash Canal.
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PART of the towpath and moorings below Barton Turn Lock at Bridge 38 have slipped into the Trent & Mersey Canal, together with the towpath, Ralph Freeman tells us.
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ONCE again the staff and customers of Marks & Spencer are giving their time in a big clean-up of the beaches and canals.
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IN RELATION To Canal & River Trust (CaRT) making payments to celebrities to promote volunteer lock keepers, John Howard asks ‘Maybe one of your narrowboatworld sleuths might be able to find out', writes Allan Richards.
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There are plenty of people ready to propose alternative structures for the payments which marinas have to pay to CaRT for the privilege of connecting their marinas to the canal network. Without this agreement, anyone mooring their boat in the marina would have nowhere to go, writes Mike Todd.
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THE Canal & River Trust has engaged television personality Penny Smith in its endeavour to promote more volunteer lock keepers.
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EACH time someone on narrowboatworld has a go at continuous cruisers (aka, now, boaters 'without a home mooring'), I feel the need to balance out some of the thinking behind the jibes, writes Suzanne MacLeod.
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