October 2018 - It has become normal for Canal & River Trust to use it’s winter stoppage programme as a public relations opportunity and the press release kicking this off has just gone out – to be followed up with lock open days and more press releases, writes Alec Wood.
This year’s is interesting as it is the first since the Trust switched from being a navigation centred organisation to one focused on the amorphous concept of ‘wellbeing’ for all in a desperate, and possibly doomed, attempt to persuade am austerity obsessed government to part with more cash.
