30 May |
- Added a report of the presentation
of the main SOW petition to the Minister, and
the IWA's report of the same event.
- Linked to the second session of evidence from BW to the EFRA
Committee enquiry.
- Added and
open letter from BW
Chief Executive (24 May) commenting on an erroneous press report that the
Government was considering privatising BW, and announcing a review of BW’s
current institutional form and financial structure.
- Linked to the IWA's response to the above
- Added reprts of the SOW presence at
Canalway Cavalcade and
the Rickmansworth Festival
- Linked to the IWA's report of its part in the campaign to date.
- Linked to three relevant items in The
Guardian :
Third Leader "In praise of ... canals",Saturday
May 26, 2007,
article "Grant squeeze threatens to cut Britain's canal
keeper adrift" Saturday May 26, 2007
and
letter "Keep our living heritage afloat" from David
Sumner, Monday May 28, 2007
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1 May |
Apologies for
being out of touch for some while, partly because of problems with my internet
connection. Here's a lot of catch-up work.
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4 April |
- Linked to the official report of the second
adjournment debate in Westminster Hall on 27 March.
- Linked to IWA Press Release, 29 March, commenting on the
above.
- Linked to writtten
Parliamentary Answers from Barry Gardiner, 27 March 2007
(Starts about half a page down in the document)
- Added some new of some
recent eventsand one more
future event with a SOW
presence planned.
- Added an extract from
IWA Head Office Bulletin,
April 2007, including,among other campaign-related items, IWA's strategy for
the next phase of the campaign.
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25 March |
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13 March |
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8 March |
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7 March |
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6 March |
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5 March |
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4 March |
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3 March |
- Added a press report frm the
Southport Visiter, 2 March with
advance publicity for our Tarleton and GArstang events.
- Added to our "Oher comments" section a useful
article by Stuart Sampson about maintenance costs.
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2 March |
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1 March |
- Linked to the House of Commons
EFFRA Committee invitation to the public to participate
in a day of public hearing.
- Added more entries to our list on
constituency-based petitions.
There are more to come. Follow the link to
this web page of
Will's for the most up-to-date list.
- Repaired a broken internal link to the
Wheelton event.
- Linked to the first day's evidence to the EFRA SC investigation of British
Waterways.
- Added a little more details of our
Devizes event.
- Added to our resources section a useful
crib-sheet for people giving radio
interviews. It was written for one of our events but could easily be adapted
for others.
- Added an urgent and important note for
local event organisers from our Press Liaison Officer.
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28 February |
- LInked to an article in the
Chorley Citizen with advance publicity for our Wheelton
event, and to one from the Bucks Heraldwith yet more advance publiciy for our
Marsworth event.
- Up-dated details of our
Ashton event, and added a
poster for it.
- Up-dated details of our
Fradley event, and added a
poster for it.
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27 February |
- Our electronic petition is now past its closing
date. The finaly tally of signatures is 7,205.
- Meanwhile our written petition goes on. The
signatures counted to date are around 26,000 and with those we expect to add at
this weekend's events 30,000 seems within reach.
- Added a
SOW Press Statement
for use by any campaigners talking to the Press.
- Added more details details of our
Macclesfield and
Marsworth events.
- Corrected a typo in the contact details for our
Garstang event.
- Linked to the Parliamentary Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs Committee's second report, dealing with DEFRA's financial management
and the cuts, and added an abridged version of the
report (thanks for the latter to Emrhys Barrell) and to an
IWA Press Release commenting on the report and
looking to the EFRAC examination of BW.
- Added a page about our new
constituency-based petitions.
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21 February |
- TODAY IS THE CLOSING DAY FOR
SIGNATURES TO OUR ELECTRONIC PETITION. We have 7,105 signatures as of 14:15
on 21 February.SIGN IT HERE
- Our March event formerly labelled "Anderton" is now
labelled Northwich, which is less
confusing.
- Added an announcement of a new March event at
Wheelton.
- The March event at
Marsworth now has a second MP coming,
and more details of activities there have been added.
- Added (slightly belatedly)
IWA Branch Briefing Notes
no.10.
- Added the
Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival
to the list of events later in the year that will have a SOW presence.
- Linked to another article in
Hemel Hempstead Today with advance publicity for our
Marsworth event.
- Up-dated details of the
Braunston &
Fradley events in March.
- Corected one of the e-mail contacts for the
Newbury event in March.
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20 February |
- Added more details of the
Leighton Buzzard,
Tarleton and
Garstang events in March. NOTE the
latter is a change if venue for what had previous been planned for
Preston.
- Our electronic petition now has 6917 signatures as at 05:00 on
20 February. NOTE - The closing date for this petition is tomorrow.
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16 February |
- Added details of new events in March at
Leighton Buzzard and
Anderton (Northwich).
- Added details & contact for the
Fradley Junction event in March.
- Up-dated the details of our
campaign wear.
- Linked to an article in
Hemel Hempstead Today with advance publicity
for our Marsworth event.
- We now have a bulletin board devoted to our
campaign, which has been provided by NABO. You can find it
here. We are encouraging
event organisers to post their latest news there, so you might pick it up there
before I get it here! Its open to anybody to post any messages they like about
the SOW campaign.
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13 February |
- Added more details of the
Ashton-under-Lyne March event.
- Added a picture to the page for the
Preston event.
- Removed the reference to a possible event in the
West Midlands as the relevant groups have decided to support the one at Fradley
Junction.
- Added the text of a strongly supportive resolution
for debate at the Lib Dem Spring Conference.
- Our electronic petition now has 6187 signatures as at 17:00 on
13 February.
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12 February |
- Reorganised the list of
events for March so
that where an event is using two venues, each gets a separate listing. Added a
map of the March events.
- Added details of the event at
Macclesfield
- Promoted the Fradley Junction event to the
"definite" list, although details are still awaited.
- Our electronic petition now has 6106 signatures as at 23:00 on
12 February.
- Our paper petition now has nearly 17,500
signatures counted to date, with the Boiat & Caravan Shw in Birmingham
and the March events yet to come. The revised deadline for getting completed
petition forms in is that they should be posted Fitrst Class by 5th
March.
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11 February |
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10 February |
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9 February |
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4 February 2007 |
- Added details of the
Newbury and what we're now calling
Tarleton & Lancaster events
for March (The latter updated in the evening).
- Added a short news item from
"u" - magazine for Unison members and
their families - Winter 2007 edition.
- Our electronic petition now has 5734 signatures as at 23:00 on
4 February.
- Added the latest news about
Early Day Motions before
Parliament, including the regional ones. There are still a
few more signatures appearing.
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2 February |
- Added confirmation of an event at Lancaster/Rufford
to our "events planned" page for March, and a reference to the
Rickmansworth Waterways Festival in
May, with a few minor bits of
tidying-up on the same page.
- Added more details of the
Leicester event in March.
- Up-dated the contact etails for the
Marsworth event.
- Our electronic petition now has 5691 signatures as at 21:20 on
2 February.
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1 February |
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30 January |
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28 January |
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27 January |
- Added the first details of the
London events in March.
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26 January |
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25 January |
- Added preliminary details of a new event at
Devizes.
- Up-dated details about the event at
Marsworth, including a down-loadable
flier for the event.
- Our electronic petition now has 5482 signatures as at 19:15 on
25 January.
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24 January |
- Added to our
Events Planned page a
mention of some less definite plans for more events in March.
- Our electronic petition now has 5449 signatures as at 17:45 on
24 January.
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23 January |
- Up-dated the details of our
Marsworth and
Leicester events.
- Added details of a new event in Stoke-on-Trent,
corrected and up-dated later in the evening to
Cheddleton.
- Our electronic petition now has 5425 signatures as at 22:30 on
23 January.
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20 January |
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18 January |
- Added a link to IWA's report of the Jan 16 Campaign cruise.
- Added the AWCC Press Release about the
Campaign Cruise.
- Removed the ahead-of-the-event stuff about the
Campaign cruise and modified the events page to point to the
reports etc up-loaded yesterday & today.
- Updated the details of the
Braunston event in March.
- Our electronic petition now has 5057 signatures as at 20:30 on
18 January.
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17 January |
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15 January |
- Added press articles from the
Sunday Telegraph and
the Daily Express.
- Removed the suggestion that our supporters make
submission to the EFRA Select Committee, as the dealine for them has
passed.
- Added a link to a statement of support from the
canoeing charity PaddleAid.
- Re-organised the entries on our Parliament page in "newest-first" order
- Added,on our
events planned page,
contact details for the Newbury event in March.
- Our electronic petition now has 4751 signatures as at 22:45 on
15 January.
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13 January |
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10 January |
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28 December |
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24 December |
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21 December |
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19 December |
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18 December |
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17 December |
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15 December |
- In our Parliamentary section, added a link to the
announcement of a Select Committee enquiry into the work of British
Waterways. Also linked to it from the What can I do? page.
- Up-dated my Editorial
page.
- Added to our Press section, the lead article
about the campaign from isssue 14 of Towpath Talk.
- Added to our Parliamentary page some more
Parliamentary questions, one to the Leader of the House, and
some to
Barry Gardiner.
- Our electronic petition now has 3457 signatures as at 17:00 on
15 December.
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14 December |
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11 December |
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8 December |
- Added a further press report of the
Birmingham event.
- Up-dated Andrew Phasey's contact information (for
the Jan 16 cruise) on the events planned page.
- Added to our campaign resources section, a
SOW Christmas bauble for
those supporters who design their own Christmas stationery.
- Added the latest news about
Early Day Motions before
Parliament.
- Our electronic petition has now passed
3,000 signatures and creeps up the top ten of all those submitted. (3094
signatures as at 22:50 on 8 December and ranked #8).
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7 December |
- Added a link to the Hansard report of the
adjournment debate in Parliament (starts half-way down
the first page).
- Up-dated information about our
campaign wear.
- Added to our Press section a summary of some
local radio coverage of the adjournment
debate.
- Added the latest news about
Early Day Motions before
Parliament.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 2926 signatures as at 14:00 on 7 December and is still
ninth in popularity of all those submitted.
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6 December |
- Added a link to a video of the
adjournment debate in Parliament.
- Added the latest news about
Early Day Motions before
Parliament.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 2861 signatures as at 23:00 on 5 December and is still
ninth in popularity of all those submitted.
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5 December |
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4 December |
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3 December |
- Added a seond press report of our event at
Hawkesbury.
- Added a couple of suggestion for
Christmas, and a
template to help with one of them.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 2537 signatures as at 19:00 on 3 December and is still
ninth in popularity of all those submitted.
- Added to our contacts
page am e-maillink to the SOW steering group.
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1 December |
- Added to the campaign resources section a
sylish tip for webmasters
wanting to link to this site.
- Up-dated the link to the latest edition of
IWA's campaign notes.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 2351 signatures as at 19:45 on 1 December and is still
ninth in popularity of all those submitted.
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30 November |
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29 November |
- Added to our Write Letters page an urgent
note about the re-scheduled adjournment debate in the Commons.
- Added to our Press section a link to the BBC
West Midlands Politics Show report on our campaign, an article by the
Chairman of the BCNS in the Express & Star and a supportive editorial from
the Birmingham Post.
- Added press reports on our events from
icCoventry.co.uk, the Birmingham Post, the Craven Herald, This is Gloucestershire,
This is Oxfordshire and the
Daily Post (Chester),
- Added a page for the Liberal Democrat Party's support for our
campaign and to Jonatahn Calder's
Liberal England
blog.
- Added a report on our
Pewsey event.
- Up-dated our
Birmingham,
Foxton,
Devizes and
Bulbourne event reports.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 2173 signatures as at 23:20, 29 November and is still ninth
in popularity of all those submitted.
- Added another not-very-illuminating
Parliamentary answer from the
Waterways Minister.
- Added the latest news about
Early Day Motions before
Parliament.
- Added a link to the Unison Coventry Branch
newsletter with an article about our campaign, and to a page
of their web site.
- Added a link to some campaign support on the
National Federation of Anglers web
site.
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28 November |
- Added to the Other Views section a comment
from The Monarch's Way, a foot-path organisation.
- Added reports of campaign events at
Stoke Bruerne,
Thrupp,
Bulbourne,
Goring,
Hawkesbury,
Anderton,
Hatton,
Kingston,
Reading,
Devizes,
Middlewich,
Little Venice and
Banbury.
- Up-dated the reports on the
Bugsworth and
Skipton events.
- Added a link to the IWA's
round-up of the 25/26 November
protests.
- Our electronic petition to 10 Downing
Street is now up to 1990 signatures as at 13:30, 28 November and is ninth in
popularity of all those submitted.
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27 November |
- No up-dates because of conection problems.
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26 November |
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24 November |
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23 November |
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21 November |
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20 November |
- Added a very supportive interview from Towpath Talk with the CEO of the
National Federation of Anglers.
- In the Campaign Resources section, added an
alternative poster from the IWA and a
couple of crib sheets ( here and
here for when you're out collecting
petition signatures.
- Added more details of some of the
events planned .
- Up-dated information on our
campaign clothing .
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19 November |
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18 November |
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17 November |
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16 November |
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15 November |
- Added to the Parliamentary section the text
of three new Early Day Motions.
- Cross-references to them added on a couple of other
pages.
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14 November |
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13 November |
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11 November |
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9 November |
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8 November |
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7 November |
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6 November |
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5 November |
- Map of events planned added and a new event
in Reading added to the list.
- Added to the Other views section a
press release
from John Bell, a Conservative candidate for the Welsh Assembly.
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3 November |
- Up-dated the news about Early Day Motions in
Parliament on the Write letters page,
and added a note about the coming Adjournment Debate on 8 November.
- Added to the Campaign Resources section a
poster than can be down-loaded.
- Added to the Other Views section a link to
Andy Edwards' blog.
- Two new events added to the
events planned page, and more
details about others.
- Added links to Hansard's report of
written answers and
DEFRA question time in Parliament, 2 November.
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2 November |
- Up-dated the news about Early Day Motions in
Parliament on the Write letters
page.
- More up-dated contact details on the
events planned page.
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1 November |
- Revised versions of the
petition and its
one-page version
replaced the earlier ones. These now have wording approved as valid by the
relevant Parliamentary Clerk.
- Added some details to the
events planned page.
- Added to the Other views page a relevant
excerpt from the Stort Boat Club
newsletter.
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31 October |
- Up-dated the news about Early Day Motions in
Parliament on the Write letters
page.
- Added a direct link from the home page to the
events planned page.
- Added some details and made some corrections to the
events planned page.
- Added to the Other views page some written
Parliamentary answers from Hansard for 30 October.
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