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CaRT can now concentrate

NOW that the government has seen fit to postpone Canal & River Trust taking over the Environmental Agency navigations, it puts a different aspect on matters, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 06 July 2013

Young girl drowned

A YOUNG girl who tried to help two others searching for a shoe in the Staffs & Worcs Canal at Wolverley Court Lock near Kidderminster, slipped in and drowned.

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Published: 05 July 2013

Piling on the cost of mooring

BE VERY careful when bidding for a mooring in an auction, as Canal & River Trust have 'arranged' it so that you will be paying much more than you actually bid in another CaRT rip-off, with boater Andrew Bailes explaining:

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Published: 05 July 2013

Drowned woman was alive

A WOMAN who had been floating in the Trent near Colwich Marina for an hour and was thought to be dead was found to be still alive.

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Published: 05 July 2013

Breach in the making?

IT WAS our contributor Mick Fitzgibbons who heard the sound of rushing water adjacent to the towpath near Stewponey on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.

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Published: 05 July 2013

CaRT's Annual Public meeting

CANAL & RIVER TRUST'S Annual Public Meeting will take place at Ellesmere Port on Tuesday 9th July, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 05 July 2013

A Waterway for All

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust styles itself as A Waterway for All, so it was determined to make this year's Festival a success for everybody.

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Published: 04 July 2013

Hoping for better festival

AFTER being virtually rained-off last year, the organisers of Evesham River Festival are hoping for better luck this year.

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Published: 04 July 2013

The seal must go

NOW a visitor attraction, named Keith, the seal that has made its home in the Severn, feeding on its fish, has anglers up in arms, wanting it gone.

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Published: 04 July 2013

No Middlewich regeneration

THERE was hope that the Town Wharf regeneration in Middlewich would get a grant from Cheshire East Council so it could be started, but it has been refused.

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Published: 04 July 2013

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