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Part of Leeds & Liverpool adopted

THE new University Technical College, Visions Learnings Trust in Burnley, have taken up an ‘adopt a canal' initiative by the Canal & River Trust earlier this year.

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Published: 09 October 2013

David: Banbury Canal Day

I WENT to Banbury Canal Day (by car) last Sunday, for the first time for several years.

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Published: 09 October 2013

Museum by torchlight

THE Gloucester Waterways Museum is staging a torchlight event where the characters of the canal working days are being brought to life.

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Published: 09 October 2013

Charity began at home

THE Cam Conservators believe that an undergraduate who claimed his tours were to raise money for charity, was running the tours for gain.

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Published: 09 October 2013

CaRT conceals information

ANOTHER complaint has been made to the Information Commissioner that Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has concealed information, including that showing that it is subject to Environmental Information Regulations (EIR).

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Published: 09 October 2013

More Cromford cash

MONEY has been awarded to Derbyshire County Council from Natural England towards the Cromford Canal.

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Published: 07 October 2013

New association tackling issues

THE new Association of Continuous Cruisers (ACC) is already very busy tackling a number of very important issues that have really needed addressing for many years, John Sloan tells us.

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Published: 07 October 2013

Contempt of Court?

THE recent Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Press Release concerning its filing of responses to the Nick Brown Judicial Review, publicises Nigel Johnson's open disparagement of a senior judge in an on-going case, writes Nigel Moore.

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Published: 07 October 2013

Jail for gang in canal death

A GANG of five robbers pushed a man into the Rochdale Canal in Manchester even after his protesting he could not swim, so he subsequently drowned.

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Published: 05 October 2013

Oh Ye of Little Faith!

TO KNOCK the (pipe?) dreams and aspirations of others is easy. To support those aspirations is praiseworthy. I believe that with enough determination the funding and eventual building of the Bedford-Milton Keynes Link will come to pass, writes Orph Mable.

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Published: 05 October 2013

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