Hope for Trent release

WITH the forecast that the jet stream that is causing so much flooding will be moving North, there is hope that boaters trapped by the Trent will be free to move.

A contributor at Shardlow Marina tells us that she has spoken to many boaters who have arranged holidays, who have had them ruined by being unable to 'escape' owing to the flooded Trent.

Stuck again

For many weeks the river has been in flood condition, and perversely at week-ends when boaters want to take their boats out. We too were stuck again on Tuesday on Sawley Cut with the river well in flood—the fourth time we have been unable to get on to the Trent on a Monday evening in five weeks.

The Soar too has been very susceptible to flooding making the Trent even worse below Cranfleet—the picture shows Cranfleet Flood Lock closed—with well over a thousand boats affected between Cranfleet and Derwent Mouth.

It is feared that with boaters so marooned and others realising the problem, it will have a detrimental effect on the marinas and moorings affected so badly by the unseasonal weather conditions.