Archive for January, 2013

Petition against the SE Moorings Consultation

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

First it was the Kennet and Avon

Then it was the Lee and Stort

and now…. It’s the South East waterways, the southern Grand Union and the Oxford Canal. Sally Ash is on the rampage again with another ill-thought out multi-layered deceit to appease hire boat company interests.

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Bath surgery seeking NHS patient registration

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Pulteney Practice, a doctor’s surgery on Pulteney Street in Bath are actively seeking out new NHS patient registrations. We encourage all boaters to be registered with a GP as it simplifies access to health services.

This practice is particularly convenient for the canal in Bath. They are also affiliated with the Surgery at Bathampton.

Phone number for both practices: 01225 464187
website: www.pulteney.co.uk

Please let us know if you experience any difficulty registering as a resident of a boat.

Boaters Voices (must be silenced)

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Appparently Sally Ash is less than happy with the lovely film Boater’s Voices, made by Wiltshire Council and, for me at least, evidence that there may be summer again.

She has written to Wiltshire Council complaining that CRT’s voice was not heard, the strident and piercing voice that can be heard in any of Ms Ash’s official outpourings, and is absent from this film.

Her email can be read here.

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Can’t Really Trust’em…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

The recent Memorandum of Understanding between CRT and the Residential Boat Owners Association (RBOA) is a further indication of CRT’s efforts to divide boating organisations and reward those that support its policies while seeking to misrepresent and exclude those that challenge it. CRT has signed memoranda of understanding with the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and the RBOA to date.

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Enforcement bully backs down after complaint from injured boater

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

An enforcement officer has been forced to reconsider ordering an injured boater to move within 48 hours, and has agreed that the boater can stay on a visitor mooring for the time that a doctor has recommended for the injury to heal.

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Save Bradford on Avon Post Office!

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

The Post Office is proposing to close its branch in The Shambles, Bradford on Avon and replace it with a counter in Budgen’s. This is likely to mean the end of the Poste Restante service that so many boaters rely on to receive mail promptly. There is a consultation by the Post Office that ends on Friday 1st February.

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Towpath tidy 26th January Widbrook to Hilperton

Friday, January 18th, 2013

There will be a towpath tidy on Saturday 26th January between Widbrook and Hilperton, organised by boaters with help from the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust’s workboat crew. Please join us!

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CRT Council member urges IWA to spy on law abiding boaters

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

 

Vaughan Welch, one of the four private boater representatives elected to the CRT Council, has recently written an article encouraging IWA members to spy on boaters who comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.

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CRT concedes that a minimum distance is unlawful

Sunday, January 13th, 2013

CRT has conceded that it cannot lawfully specify a minimum distance that boaters without home moorings must travel in order to comply with Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act.

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Robin Evans resigns

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

CRT has announced today that its Chief Executive, Robin Evans, is to resign in May this year.

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