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'Low life out there'

AN INSURANCE company is warning boaters to look after their possessions on their boats as there is 'low life out there'.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Council pay for restoration

THE Three Rivers District Council is to donate half of the money required to restore a traditional narrowboat at present moored at Rickmansworth.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Don't want automated weir

WITH a weir on the Thames protecting Appleton, the residents are up in arms after being told it will no longer be operated by a lock keeper but will be automatic.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Schoolgirl rape and armed attacks on towpaths

FOLLOWING hard on the heels of the news of a man severely beaten and thrown in a canal and two teenagers found drowned in another, is the news of a young schoolgirl raped on a canal towpath and a armed gang attacking a man on another towpath.

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Published: 28 October 2011

Two teenagers drown in canal

TWO teenagers have been found drowned in the Birmingham Level Main Line Canal near Brasshouse Bridge at Smethwick.
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Published: 27 October 2011

Mug Tug goes pink

THE Mug Tug is a paint-a-pot studio in a narrowboat moored at Barton Marina, and its owner is encouraging people to wear pink to support its fund-raising programme for a breast cancer charity.

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Published: 27 October 2011

Prince Charles takes to the towpath

ON A visit to Burnley this week Prince Charles took to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath in the town when he visited the Weavers Triangle.

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Published: 27 October 2011

Hope for Lapal Canal

IT SEEMS all is not lost over the Lapal Canal as Sainsbury's agreed a meeting with members of the Lapal Canal Trust.

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Published: 27 October 2011

More money wasted

A GREAT amount of money has been wasted on erecting booms across the small weirs on the Soar.

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Published: 26 October 2011

Boat fires were arson

THE boat fires on the Coventry Canal reported in narrowboatworld this morning have been discovered to be arson.
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Published: 26 October 2011

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