The Floater December 2017
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - Chaos and consultations, power grabs and job losses, stoppages galore as the waterways groaned under the weight of inadequate maintenance – but boaters boated on and found their way to their destinations and Canal & River Trust continued to blithely claim everything was rosy a
December 2017 - The Floater will not be offering a news service over Christmas and the New Year. We have better things to do and we hope you do too.
December 2017 - With figures belatedly published for the first four months of C&RT's 2017/18 financial year, trustees have been informed by Chief Executive, Richard Parry, that the trust will fail to meet this years target for recruiting 'Friends'.
December 2017 - Within days of Canal & River Trust admitting that it had, finally, made an official bid to take over the Environment Agency Navigations the Agency itself has made a belated attempt to highlight its investment in its East Anglian waterways, as Peter Underwood reports.
December 2017 - Canal & River Trust has announced yet another half-baked scheme aimed at boaters – this time to 'validate' moorings, as Peter Underwood reports.
December 2017 - At the Kennet & Avon Partnership meeting on Wednesday (7 December), Canal & River Trust announced that Waterways Partnerships are to be dissolved and made no mention of them being reconstituted under the new structure now out for consultation.
December 2017 - Senior Canal & River Trust managers are falling like flies, with controversial North West Waterways manager Chantelle Seaborn the latest to join the exodus from Richard Parry's top team, as Peter Underwood reports.
December 2017 - Canal and River Trust has given a muted and brief confirmation that it has finally bid to take over the Environment Agency's navigations including the Thames and East Anglian rivers, reports Peter Underwood.
December 2017 - Whether you are on a marina or simply keeping to the 14-day rule it can often seem a pain to have to move your mooring. Peter Underwood has taken a photographic look at the problem on a far larger scale.
December 2017 - In September, The Floater asked 'Waterways Partnerships - success or failure?' Now Allan Richards takes a more detailed look, concentrating on one of the failing Waterway Partnerships - East Midlands who are no longer meeting.
December 2017 - The Canal & River Trust has apologised for a press release where it claimed it would spend £7m less this winter than in previous years (Did C&RT really spend £80m on restoration last year?).
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