Letters to BW and others
You are not alone. We intend to publish any letters that you write to BW, to give you examples of what other people write, and to gauge the feelings abroad.
Please send us any letters you write to BW so that we can publish them. We will remove any personal details before publication.
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Following a complaint by a boater who spent half an hour on the phone while CRT staff tried to find details of the Annual Public Meeting that was due to take place in two weeks’ time, CRT has apologised for the time it took to provide the information.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, meeting
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
The CRT has rejected the offer to remove the articles on this web site that it alleges are defamatory.
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Tags: continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, hire boat companies, Letters to BW and others, libel threat, liveaboards, Sally Ash
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Three liveaboard boaters attended the CRT Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 27 September to register their objection to the joint CRT and IWA attack on the rights of boaters without home moorings.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, IWA, liveaboards, meeting, Waterways Act 1995
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
This web site’s Editor received a letter from CRT recently threatening to take court proceedings for libel against the web site because of statements made in articles revealing and commenting about BW/CRT’s relationship with hire boat holiday brokers Drifters Leisure Limited.
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, continuous cruising, Drifters Leisure Limited, FOI request, hire boat companies, libel, liveaboards, Robin Evans, Sally Ash
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
CRT Chief Executive Robin Evans has responded negatively to the boaters’ complaint which we published below about the content of Trustees’ briefing TT06. He has declined to end the use of the term “continuous moorers” and “CMs” and has failed to address most of the issues in the complaint. We publish his reply here:
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, complaints, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards, Robin Evans
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Three boaters recently complained about derogatory language and inaccurate statements regarding boaters without home moorings in one of the Canal and River Trust’s briefing documents, TT06, which is on the Canal and River Trust’s web site. We publish their complaint below:
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Tags: Canal and River Trust, complaints, continuous cruising, Letters to BW and others, liveaboards
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Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Liveaboard boater Simon Greer has started an online petition for security for towpath boat dwellers. You can sign the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/447/522/923/security-for-towpath-boat-dwellers/
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Tags: continuous cruising, liveaboards, petition, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
The House of Commons First Delegated Legislation Committee will consider the Draft British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 on Tuesday 26th June. Please write to your MP now asking him or her to vote against the Order when it is returned to the floor of the House of Commons for a vote a few days after the Committee has considered it. An example letter is below.
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Tags: BW charity status, BW Transfer Order, continuous cruising, Don Foster, liveaboards, Waterways Act 1995
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