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Why concentrate on the trivial?

IF YOU read the full report [South East moorings] published last week, Jeff Whyatt, carefully I thought, said he had received many verbal and written comments about moorings, writes Jan Swatridge.

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Published: 13 May 2013

Many verbal complaints

So 'nobody in CaRT received a single complaint during 2011 or 2012 regarding difficulty in finding a mooring'? Asks Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 13 May 2013

Stolen boat found

THE narrowboat Samshiba that was stolen from its moorings at Kegworth on the Soar has been found, repainted and with other alterations—on the Fossdyke.

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Published: 12 May 2013

Whyatt in trouble

WITHIN hours of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) publishing a report following its South East Visitor Moorings Consultation, (Mooring consultation report) one of its authors has been brought to book on a Facebook site, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 11 May 2013

Flawed consultation states NABO

THE National Association of Boat Owners (NABO) have today (Saturday) stated that the Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) South East moorings consultation was flawed, and that its rules and charges are outside its legal ability.

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Published: 11 May 2013

Management in action

HAVING read Del Brenner's excellent piece I thought it worth while providing an illustration of what he refers to as 'British Waterways Management', in action, writes Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 11 May 2013

Mooring consultation report published

CANAL & River Trust has today (Friday) published its final report on the public consultation on visitor moorings in the South East.

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Published: 10 May 2013

CaRT condemned

A LOCAL man at Berkhamsted was incensed at Canal & River Trust spending £86,000 on repairing just 400 metres of towpath.

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Published: 10 May 2013

Lives in danger

NOTWITHSTANDING one person dying after leaping into the Dee at Chester from the suspension bridge, others are still doing it.

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Published: 10 May 2013

Waterfront white elephant

DUDLEY Council is once again attempting to create interest in its 'white elephant'—the Waterfront complex in Brierley Hill on the Dudley No1 Canal.

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Published: 10 May 2013

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