Following the spate of thefts from boats in the past two weeks, police are patrolling the towpath after dark. They are calling on occupied boats to warn boaters, and also stopping and searching people on the towpath.
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Posts Tagged ‘Sally Ash’
Boat burglaries: police patrol the towpath
Thursday, March 14th, 2013SE Visitor Mooring Consultation example response
Monday, February 25th, 2013The CRT South East visitor mooring consultation ends this Friday 1st March. Please respond if you can. Below we publish an example response to the consultation, apart from comments on individual locations.
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Petition against the SE Moorings Consultation
Thursday, January 31st, 2013First 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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Boaters Voices (must be silenced)
Thursday, January 31st, 2013Appparently 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, 2013The 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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CRT concedes that a minimum distance is unlawful
Sunday, January 13th, 2013CRT 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, 2013CRT has announced today that its Chief Executive, Robin Evans, is to resign in May this year.
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‘Generic solutions’ or final solutions? Our analysis of CRT’s briefing paper on ‘Non Compliant Continuous Cruising’
Sunday, January 6th, 2013On 25 October 2012, the same day that the K and A Local Waterway Partnership held its first moorings sub-group meeting to review the local mooring strategy proposals, CRT published plans to continue eroding the rights of CRT licence holders to use the waterways without a home mooring under Section 17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act. The briefing paper was produced for the CRT Council meeting on 27 September 2012. CRT Council, which contains a minority of boater representatives most of whom have connections with the IWA, endorsed the plan. We reproduce the briefing below with our comments marked in bold.
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CRT rejects offer to remove articles in libel threat
Friday, November 30th, 2012The CRT has rejected the offer to remove the articles on this web site that it alleges are defamatory.
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