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Email: Beating the system

I read with interest about marina owners losing money, being in dispute with Canal & River Trust, empty moorings, threats of disconnection, etc.
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Published: 12 February 2014

Floating Market for Stone

A NEW venture for the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stone is a floating market that will be held over a length of the towpath side of the waterway.

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Published: 12 February 2014

Trent Lifeboat stolen

A LIFEBOAT, that could mean life or death to anyone in trouble in the Trent, has been stolen, with the volunteer Colwick Park Lifeguards in Nottingham now without its means of rescue.

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Published: 11 February 2014

Boaters muck in

BOATERS have been giving their services to Canal & River Trust to alleviate the flooded Oxford (pictured) and Grand Union canals, by clearing culverts and weirs of debris that has been carried in by the excess water.

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Published: 11 February 2014

Grand Union reopened

BY MOVING the excess flood water down the pounds, the Grand Union Canal that was closed due to flooding is again open after the spell of dry weather.
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Published: 11 February 2014

Trial of London moorings

THE Canal & River Trust is proposing to trial a range of temporary changes to the moorings at Paddington Basin and the Little Venice Pool in London to meet a wider range of mooring needs over the coming summer. The initiative follows feedback from boaters and boating groups.

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Published: 10 February 2014

Cotswolds flood damage

WITH the adverse weather conditions continuing, the Cotswold Canal Trust have had a major setback with the newly installed Dudbridge Locks, on the Stroudwater Canal Restoration, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 10 February 2014

See it to believe it

SINCE publishing the Evasive answers article this morning by Allan Richards, we have now included the two three year plans of Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 10 February 2014

£2.5 millions for Caldon

Staffordshire County Council and Pedal Peak District are to spend a total of £3.5 million pounds on the Caldon Canal—but alas not on the waterway itself but just the towpath.

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Published: 10 February 2014

Evasive answers

THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) open meeting in Birmingham in January went well according to press reports, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 February 2014

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