THE repairs to the collapsed Buckland Lock on the Aylesbury Arm is not only overdue, but we have discovered a colossal £500,000 over budget!
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READING Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) latest submission (Witness statement) to the court in relation to a Judicial Review my first thought was ‘you couldn't make it up', writes Pam Pickett.
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OR PERHAPS the heading should be 'Carrying the can', referring to Canal & River Trust (CaRT) Trustee John Dodwell's efforts to portray that all in the garden is lovely.
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A LOCAL cooperative in Abingdon has been granted permission to install a hydro electric plant in the Abbey Stream as it flows into the Thames.
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THE new waterways minister appointed to replace Richard Benyon MP is Dan Rogerson MP, Lib Dem Member for North Cornwall.
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THE man who left a trail of narrowboat thefts behind him from boats on many waterways has been caught and sentenced to four and a a half years in prison.
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IT WAS just about a year ago that Canal & River Trust's (CaRT) Trustee John Dodwell was telling us how great it was to be a charity and that certainty of funding meant that £1m would be spent on 20 locks on the Lapworth Flight in 2013/14.
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USING the slogan that a new massive development in Banbury will 'make the Oxford Canal an attractive destination', developers want to convince the locals it is a good thing.
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