Although personal details gathered by the census are exempt from Freedom of Information, other aspects of the census are included, and so this FOI request went to the Office for National Statistics recently:
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Archive for April, 2011
Census information requested by boater
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Theft at Limpley Stoke
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011‘Bootneck’ has had a number of items stolen; a solar panel, 2 gas bottles, a gangplank a chimney and a jerry can. The boat was moored at Limpley Stoke.
Sounds like a boater so keep your eyes peeled people. It is unlikely that he’s going to get away with it long term so a 24 hour amnesty is offered.
Pass it on and be careful.
Ian Dewey to resign!
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Respond to the DEFRA consultation on the New Waterways Charity
Monday, April 4th, 2011The DEFRA consultation on moving BW and eventually the EA navigations to charity status opened on 30 March. The deadline is 30 June. It is extremely important that liveaboard boaters, whatever their mooring status, respond to this – because there is virtually no acknowledgement of our existence in the entire consultation!!
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Want to be a lockie?
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011Press Release 2: British Waterways
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011The following is a press release issued by British Waterways about the judgement in the case British Waterways v Paul Davies
1 April 2011
British Waterways welcomes today’s (31/3/11) Judgment made in Bristol County Court in which His Honour Deputy Judge O’Malley said he favoured BW’s interpretation of Section 17 of the British Waterways Act 1995 (relating to Continuous Cruising).Read more…