CRT’s Relationship, Policy and Strategy Manager Matthew Symonds, whose job includes maintaining relationships with boaters, recently described liveaboard boaters as “gits”.
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CRT Relationship Manager: liveaboards are “gits”
Saturday, April 30th, 2016Skippers Wanted
Thursday, March 17th, 2016A wonderful opportunity to do some boating in a different part of the country and get involved in a very worthwhile project.
We need to find 3 experienced steerers, no certificates needed, for a project that involves taking a group of young people from Birmingham to Manchester for a dance performance on hire boats. This is the first two weeks of July.
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Looking Glass Eyes and the Laws of Physics
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014Life along the Kennet and Avon canal has of late adopted a gently surreal Kafkaesque tone.
The latest offering from the CART is a letter telling people they haven’t ‘moved through enough neighbourhoods’ in the last three months. it ends with a black edged obituary box stating “YOU ARE AT RISK OF LOSING YOUR BOAT’.
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CRT legal director who wasted £250,000 and six years decides to “retire early”
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013Nigel Johnson, CRT’s legal and corporate services director will retire at the end of 2013 according to a CRT press release. This is surprising, because it was announced last year in a review of directors’ pay and roles that he would retire at the end of 2014. Mr Johnson was responsible for CRT spending around £250,000 on BW/ CRT’s failed six-year court battle with Nigel Moore over a section 8 order in Brentford.
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