CHANNEL 4 is screening the first episode of a new canal documentary on Monday that perhaps will be somewhat better that the normal ones we have suffered, as it features actual boaters.
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Volunteer Lock Keepers—Volly Lockies—as they shall be known, are indeed a rare bird on the the waterways, writes Keith Gudgin.
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Contractors Land & Water are at present taking core samples from the ground outside Pillings Marina entrance—exclusive photo above. Does this mean that Land & Water will be undertaking CaRT's 'dirty work' in blockading the marina entrance?
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OWNERSHIP of Pillings Lock Marina will be transferred from Quorn Marina Properties (QMP) to a phoenix company three weeks before Canal & River Trust (CaRT) carries out its threat to blockade the marina, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Canal & River Trust has reluctantly concluded that roving mooring permits, which it was proposing to introduce in two local areas from April 2014, cannot be used to deal with localised issues of mooring congestion on the waterways.
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IT MAY be correct what Caroline Killeavy of the Canal & River Trust says that no paid permanent lock keepers have been made redundant because they were to be replaced by volunteers, writes Ian Waters.
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I am not sure that Allan Richards is being entirely fair to British Waterways in his article. Quite frankly I am not surprised by the optimism displayed in 2006 by the British Waterways New Marinas Unit, writes Tony Collins.
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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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