16 new gates for Caen Hill
OVER the the next 12 weeks 16 new lock gates are to be installed on the famous Caen Hill Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Devizes.
£1,195 costs for speeding boater
THERE is one waterway where boaters really must not speed—and that's the Thames.
Volunteers wanted
STROUD District Council must use volunteers to both meet a condition of the £11.9million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and also to keep the restoration project of the Stroud Canals within budget.
The Broads can do it
THE Broads Authority have no trouble meeting its target for dredging its waterways, even exceeding it.
Lucky escape on the Soar
INVESTIGATIONS are going on into how two teenagers were allowed to take to the flooded Soar in Leicester from the Outdoor Pursuits centre on a raft.
Waiting for permission
THOUGH a bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden is is urgent need of repair, work cannot start.
Boat fire was arson
THE police maintain that arsonists were responsible for the narrowboat fire on the river at Ware.
Anglers castigated
ANGLERS are being castigated in letters to local papers and blogs after a swan had to be put down after suffering for weeks through anglers' insensibility to the creatures, and 45 others effected.
Girl murdered on K&A towpath
A TEENAGE girl was found dead yesterday (Monday) on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal at Reading.
Unsafe moorings
IT WOULD seem the permanent moorings at Tyrley on the Shropshire Union are not too safe.