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Licence should be displayed

I agree that checks should be made on the website as listed by Neil, but the fact remains that it is a byelaw to display a current licence, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 18 July 2019

Should welcome volunteers

THERE appears to be a perception amongst many of your contributors that help at locks from volunteers is an entitlement and when they are not there, then have a go at Cart for not providing them, writes Steve Watson.

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Published: 18 July 2019

Those boats could be licenced

IT IS often a favourite past-time of many boaters to complain about all the unlicenced boats on the system and castigate CaRT into the process, writes Neil Quarmby.

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Published: 18 July 2019

Planning permission at last for Wigan Pier

PLANS have at last been accepted for the transformation of the old industrial buildings at Wigan Pier to be regenerated.

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Published: 18 July 2019

Council want to demolish biodiversity site it created

A GROUP of local residents have set up a website to tell their story and fight to save a small triangular green piece of land by the Regent's Canal.

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Published: 18 July 2019

No CaRT help for ill and exhausted single-hander

LAST Thursday I phoned CaRT to ask for assisted passage through the remainder of the Cheshire Locks and how to contact Volunteer Lock Keepers, writes Amy Dickerson.

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Published: 17 July 2019

David: CaRT telephone numbers

IT IS welcome news that the CaRT enquiry number (0303 040 4040) is to be made available at weekends, but this change does not go far enough.

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Published: 17 July 2019

Original Chesterfield Canal boat in action

THE only Chesterfield Canal Boat in existence, will be running horse boating displays on several Sundays during the summer in Worksop.

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Published: 17 July 2019

CaRT should learn

AS VICTOR pointed out, very often volunteers become a social gathering as this picture taken at the Stratford River Festival shows, writes Brian D Jarrett.

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Published: 17 July 2019

Victor finds another lock 'bites the dust'

CLIMBING Heartbreak Hill the many locks that are twinned can make it of course much easier.

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Published: 13 July 2019

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