Aire Rivers Trust seeks helpers for Bradford Beck clean up

The following article appeared in the Telegraph and Argus today (Mon 21 May 2012)

Aire Rivers Trust seeks helpers for Bradford Beck clean up

A training day for volunteers to carry out periodic water sampling is to take place Thursday, June 14, at Bradford University, 13:00 (1 pm)

DavidB pp Michael Canning

Bradford Beck next phase
Bradford Beck Project


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East Riddlesden Hall riverbank cleanup

In October 2011 the National Trust opened up their river bank and fields at East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley, and created a footpath for the public to use. The Aire Rivers Trust worked with Bradford Council, National Trust employees, and the Environment Agency to arrange for tyres and other debris to be removed from the river and taken away. The actual work in the river was done by the Environment Agency and Bradford Council removed the debris and rubbish taken from the river.
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2011 River cleanup in Shipley/Baildon area

River Aire cleanup Shipley-Baildon


Image ©Newsquest Bradford Telegraph & Argus1.
Here in the link below is a powerpoint presentation in Powerpoint 97-2004 format2 which should be playable using the Powerpoint player downloadable from Microsoft, if you don’t have MS-Office.

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The presentation was prepared by Bradford Council covering cleanup work done in conjunction with the Environment Agency, West Yorkshire Probation Trust/(Community PaybackJustice Seen|Justice Done), Network Rail upgrading the fencing and InCommunities, with Bradford Council disposing of the debris and rubbish taken from the river.

In addition to Powerpoint It should also be playable+3 using Keynote4OpenOffice5, LibreOffice6 or NeoOffice7·8


Footnotes:
  1. clickable to their report []
  2. not the latest MS Office 2010 version – Powerpoint 97 is 2 versions older []
  3. + no guarantees I don’t have a iPhone/iPad touch – I use a Mac, but can run Windows using Bootcamp|virtualisation []
  4. Mac App Store for Mac/iPhone/iPad+ users []
  5. OpenOffice is free for Windows/Mac/Linux/Unix users []
  6. LibreOffice is free for Windows/Mac/Linux/Unix users []
  7. NeoOffice is DonationWare for Mac users []
  8. free/donation office suites for those who don’t want to/can’t run/afford MS-Office []