BW goes into the red
A stunned silence from user groups has greeted British Waterways 2008/9 Annual Report and Accounts with the realisation that reserves are being used to prop up its failing property businesses, writes Allan Richards.
Another new marina in doubt
AFTER the refusal to grant planning permission for the new marina at Lantham on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, another seems in jeopardy, this time on the Stratford Canal.
Thieves who broke into boats jailed
TWO thieves who altogether broke into 18 boats on the River Great Ouse were quickly caught and have both been jailed.
No marina for Lanhom
FOR the second time planning permission for a marina on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Lathom has been refused.
BW cause popular narrowboat café to close
BW West Midlands get tough
I have heard reports that BW West Midlands has a new mooring patrol officer walking the towpaths. The 'white shirt' in question has ruffled a few feathers of the continuous mooring brigade in the Fradley area in particular, I understand, writes Ralph Freeman.
More cash for Cotswold Canals
THE restoration of the Cotswold Canals has received a further boost with an injection of £12 millions.
Boats in danger on the Ouse
BOATS have been refused admission to the council owned basin on the Ouse in York, leaving them in danger when the river floods.
The new waterway units
Forensic experts examine lock death boat
FORENSIC experts have made a thorough examination of the narrowboat involved in the death of the woman in an Oxford Canal lock.