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Yes my friend. It happens with Google as they are trying hard and working towards their ultimate goal that is as follows: "We would like to give the user what he wants and not what he types in the search bar" So all that one can do is to just stick to the best practices, put in diligent and sincere efforts to make our websites provide a good if not the best user experience. I would also like to suggest you that if you can make the title, description and the content go hand-in-hand tightly, then you will not have to worry about Google picking up a title on its own. Yet, no one can guarantee even if you do so will make Google will pick-up the meta information that you mentioned.

Hi Tony I would consider setting up a 301 redirect for all the urls you have mentioned to your www.ckpoole.co.uk/ this will take care of the issues you have mentioned and it will pass link juice from the others and help increase the authority of that page essentially amalgamating it all into one - 301 redirect will pass 90-99% of link juice from each url helping increase authority. look at this for more: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection You must make sure that all your navigation points to that version of the page as well and not /index.html for instance. For your canonical tags question SEOMoz doesn't pick this up when doing a crawl even if you have done it correctly and search engines will recognise it see  SEOMoz staff responses here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report