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Princess Royal to open Cotswold lock

H.R.H. The Princess Royal is to visit the Cotswold Canals restoration project next month and open a lock.

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Published: 25 January 2012

Email: Tree management

Perhaps it is time for some concerted action to promote the idea I floated a  few months back.

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Published: 25 January 2012

River Great Ouse flasher

THE River Great Ouse Flasher has still not been caught after two months of exposing himself along its banks at Bedford.

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Published: 25 January 2012

Narrowboats at the jubilee celebration

THERE will be 40 narrowboats taking part in the Queen's Jubilee Celebration flotilla on the Thames, though these will be from various organisations.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Drunk stuck in waterway

IT WAS the fire brigade that had to rescue a man who had fallen into the Calder & Hebble at Sowerby Bridge.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Another stove boat fire

HARD on the heels of the news of the narrowboat burnt out on the Macclesfield Canal comes news of another boat fire caused by a stove overheating.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Body parts gang found guilty

THE gang involved in the cutting-up of the body of Adam Vincent, and disposing of the parts in the waterways have been found guilty and are due for sentencing.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Landslip closes T&M

A LANDSLIP by Barnton Tunnel on the Trent & Mersey Canal has closed the waterway.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Stavely Basin

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I just don't see the point of spending over half a million pounds on Staveley Basin on the Chesterfield Canal when it doesn't go anywhere and no boats can use it.

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Published: 23 January 2012

Email: Tool hire

I disagree with Pam Pickett. Hiring in tools from specialist hire companies, especially with increasingly complex and specialist tools that do a wide variety of tasks is clearly the right way to go.

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Published: 23 January 2012

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Latest

  • More volunteer lock keepers wanted in Yorkshire
  • Erewash Canal cygnets being killed
  • Macclesfield Canal still closed
  • £18m new bridge over Trent at Nottingham
  • Unofficial works taking place by canal in Leicester
  • Mercia Marina Promenade reaching final stages
  • Access required for Rochdale Canal repair
  • Discount offered on River Canal Rescue courses
  • Wigan Flight closed again
  • Unexploded bomb closes Coventry Canal
  • Closed canals reopened
  • Public apathy
  • Good turnout at Crick Boat Show
  • Cyclist knocked off bike with no one helping
  • Wild West scenes on the Llangollen Canal
  • Huddersfield Narrow stoppage extended to more locks
  • Shirley Drawbridge struck again
  • River Canal Rescue on telly!
  • Ordered to move off illegal moorings
  • Tuel Hill Lock closed for two weeks

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