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Why are we waiting?

IT WAS in early August that the new Long Horse Bridge was to be lifted into position over the Trent at Derwent Mouth, then opened shortly after.

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Published: 17 October 2011

Coffee and crochet

THE second crochet group exhibition has been opened at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port.

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Published: 15 October 2011

Staff and pupils build narrowboat

A BRAND new boat is being built for use on the restored Chesterfield Canal that will be fitted-out by the staff and pupils of the nearby  Eckington School.

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Published: 15 October 2011

Boat thieves cleared

TWO men who stole a narrowboat that was moored near Kentish Town Lock on the Regent's Canal have been cleared of stealing the boat.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Volunteer skippers wanted

VOLUNTEER skippers are needed for a new wide beam boat that  takes young and disabled people for trips on the Grand Union Canal at Hemel Hempstead.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Canal festival too popular

IT SEEMS that Linslade Canal Festival this year was too popular, with the huge number of visitors causing health and safety concerns for the local council.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Another marina rejected

THE plans for a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on the Grand Union Canal at Knowle have been turned down on appeal.

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Published: 14 October 2011

Yobs sink boat with hosepipe

IT IS amazing what yobs will do to damage boats, with the latest being the use of an hosepipe to fill a boat with water until it sank.

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Published: 13 October 2011

Keep your horses safe

THREE times in three days firefighters were called to rescue horses which had become stuck in waterways around Worcester.

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Published: 13 October 2011

Dredging causes dead fish

WHAT could be a great set-back to dredging the waterways, is that is has caused dead fish in Aylesbury Basin.

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Published: 12 October 2011

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Latest

  • Water returns to Montgomery Canal at Llanymynech
  • Breakages close waterways
  • Leicester Section closure extended
  • Who are they kidding?
  • Restoration boosts the Montgomery Canal for visitors and boating
  • Environment Agency steps in to maintain Severn levels
  • Massive length of Leicester Section closed and locked off
  • Possibility of Lancaster Canal closing
  • Hopes to have Bridgewater Canal breach repaired by December
  • Foating market this weekend at Market Drayton
  • Lack of water closes Caldon Canal
  • Four flights closed on Old Main Line
  • Boaters and businesses complain about continous closure of Erewash Canal
  • Various problems close navigations
  • Navigations reopened
  • Eleven stoppages through various reasons
  • Weevils used to kill invasive weed
  • Swans injured on Chesterfield Canal
  • Trent and Kennet & Avon reopened
  • Erewash closed again through lack of water

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