THE announcement of a new ethos for Canal & River Trust presented by Richard Parry in his role as CEO was a welcome change, which comes with a promise from him to be 'open and transparent' in dealings with the public, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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WITH work on Camden Lock on the Regents Canal in London now in progress, the opportunity is being used to allow the public into the chamber to see how it works.
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THE Legal & Corporate Services Director of the Canal & River Trust, Nigel Johnson, will now retire at the end of 2013, after almost 14 years of service at the Trust and British Waterways combined.
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AT A Press Briefing on 8th November, three directors of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) failed to give an explanation as to why one of their number had stated that the cost of maintaining its waterways was £105m yet another director (not present at the briefing) had given the same figure as £130m.
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IF YOU want to report something concerning the Manchester & Pennine Canals, or book a passage through a tunnel, don't call in the morning as there is no one to answer the phone!
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THE result of two deaths by cars leaving the road and careering into the Nene, has prompted campaigners to call for safety barriers to be installed.
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THERE is an article in the IWA Towpath Telegraph on the Red Lion pub at Fenny Lock, which has been recently refurbished, writes Martin Brooks.
IT WOULD seem that it is not only boaters that do not understand the new 2D mooring restriction, but neither do those that have the task of enforcing it, as Suzanne MacLeod writes:
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THERE has been a failure of yet another culvert, this time on the Shropshire Union Canal below Ellesmere Port.
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I NOTICE the passage '...the new Chief Executive, Richard Parry, categorically announced at a Press Briefing that in the future Canal & River Trust (CaRT) will be open and transparent' writes Keith Gudgin.
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