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500 want pub saved

DEVELOPERS want the ground that the Penny Ferry pub on the Cam at Chesterton stands on, and it seems the efforts to save the pub will fail.

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Published: 26 July 2012

Illegal moorers taking over

BOATERS are becoming increasingly frustrated by long term moorers permanently taking up most of the available space at visitor moorings.

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Published: 26 July 2012

No pump-out or water for 'Olympic' moorers

THOUGH boaters are being charged what they see as exorbitant charges for moorings at the designated Olympic sites, they are complaining they do not have basic facilities.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Boy drowns in Avon

THE body of a 14 years old boy has been recovered from the Avon near Saltford Weir and Lock below Bath.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Summit restoration for celebration

RECENT work on the Wey & Arun Canal was centred on the summit pound, with the Wey & Arun Canal Trust hoping to be able to run boats trips, as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations of the original opening of the Wey & Arun Canal.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Telegraph article on the Web

BOATERS wishing to see the Daily Telegraph article concerning the move to the Canal & River Trust can now read it on the Web.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Boat hire businesses in Doldrums

THOUGH we are told that the boat hire business is booming, and making up for a fall in private boating, research has found the opposite to be true, as Kevin McNiff has discovered.

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Published: 25 July 2012

Bridgewater security crackdown

IT HAS been confirmed, as narrowboatworld foretold earlier this year, that security checks will be made on boaters on the Bridgewater Canal, again because of the Olympics.

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Published: 23 July 2012

Wide swathe of wild flowers lost

THE desire for visitors to the towpaths and the resulting mowing, has caused objections at a 10 feet swathe of wild flowers having been decimated by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 23 July 2012

Worsening condition of the canals

THE the comments by David Dare in the Daily Telegraph feature on the state of the waterways, where he states the canals are in good condition, have brought responses from boaters using the waterways.

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Published: 23 July 2012

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Latest

  • Embankment breaches getting worse
  • Sutton Weaver Swing Bridge get repaired
  • More lock gates failing
  • They're all out!
  • More stoppages and solutions
  • More boats off the Weaver
  • Getting tough with the skivers
  • Obstruction still stopping navigation
  • Two more stoppages yesterday
  • River Canal Rescue competition winner
  • Getting the two boats out of the Llangollen Canal breach
  • Two lock repairs completed
  • BBC film the work being undertaken by Cotswold Canals Trust
  • Kennet & Avon lock to be repaired during season
  • Boat stranded teetering over Whitchurch breach refloated
  • Bridgewater Canal set to be reopened by December this year
  • Two more canal closures
  • Pollution still entering Chesterfield Canal
  • Move across to the canal
  • Feasibility study to replace Skipton bridge

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