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Article
What is all the fuss about? by Stuart Sampson |
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A letter from the
Australian Canal Society to British MPs. |
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format |
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A statement of
support from the canoeing Charity PaddleAid |
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A statement of support
from a newsletter from Murad Qureshi, member of the London Asssembly and Chair
of the London Watterways Commission. The relevant item is at the bottom of page
2. |
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format |
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A statement of
support from the Stort Boat Club. |
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An excerpt
from the web site of THE MONARCH'S WAY, a foot-path organisation, linking the
closure of Netherton Tunnel towpath with the budget cuts. |
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Press release Threat to
Welsh Waterways & Tourism from John Bell, Conservative Candidate for
the Welsh Assembly. |
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format |
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A relevant
page from ANDY EDWARDS' BLOG. |
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EXCERPT FROM THE STORT
REPORTER (Newsletter of the Stort Boat Club), issue 30, October 2006 |
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format |
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THE SECRETARY
OF STATE'S VERSION OF EVENTS from his blog. Now (30 October) this has attracted
a number of comments on the site, some of them from our supporters. |
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WHAT WE RISK
LOSING by Mike Anson. |
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An excerpt
from the newsletter of the DERBY & SANDIACRE CANAL SOCIETY |
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A VERY
SUPPORTIVE PRESS RELEASE from Peter Luff, MP |
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A SUPPORTIVE
VIEW from Chris Huhne MP, Liberal Democrat Environment spokesman. |
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TWO SHORT PIECES : a
letter in the Independent, 12 October and a short piece from Private Eye, 13
October 2006. |
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format |
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SOME USEFUL
QUOTES FROM DEFRA collected for us by Nick Atty |
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THE MINISTER FUDGES THE
FACTS - MP3 file of an interview with the Waterways Minister, Barry Gardiner,
on Radio 5 Live, 12 October 2006. |
Use Windows Media
Player to hear it.) |
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IN THE LONGER
TERM - an article by Richard Fairhurst |
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SOME
ADDITIONAL POINTS - an article by Robert Oliver |
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FROM THE
BIRMINGHAM CANAL NAVIGATIONS SOCIETY |
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A RADICALLY
DIFFERENT APPROACH - an article by Adrian Stott |
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THE WATERWAYS
MINISTER'S INITIAL RESPONSE |
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A DIFFERENT
WAY OF DOING THINGS? - an article by Mike Fisher |
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Some more supportive
remarks by Ministers in recent years. |
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Word format |
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A TOUCH OF
HUMOUR Old Mike's Almanack for 2007. |
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EVEN WITHIN
GOVERNMENT ...... Excerpt from a speech to the Labour Party Conference, 2006,
by John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister) |
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IN A FORMER
AGE? - a 2005 quote from the then Waterways Minister |
