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British Waterways the best name

BRITISH Waterways followed by British Waterways Trust had the greatest appeal as a name change for the new charitable status we are told.

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Published: 07 March 2011

More body parts expected

THE police have intimated that in addition to the human leg found in the Louth Canal, more parts are expected to be discovered.

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Published: 07 March 2011

Memories of Bingley Five Rise wanted

BRITISH Waterways is asking for people with old photographs of Bingley Five Rise Locks on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, that they may have stored away, to share them.

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Published: 07 March 2011

Massive load by water

THE Ribble was used on Sunday to deliver a 270 tonnes transformer section to an electricity sub station.

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Published: 07 March 2011

Human leg in lock

A HUMAN leg has been discovered in Tetney Lock on the Louth Canal, near to where it meets the Humber Estuary.

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Published: 07 March 2011

Further Wilts & Berks Canal opens

ANOTHER stretch of the Wilts and Berks Canal has been completed, with a trip boat planned.

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Published: 04 March 2011

Man dies after boat leap

IT WAS all good fun for the men, leaping off the wall onto a narrowboat in the Albert Dock in Liverpool, but one missed, and is now dead.

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Published: 04 March 2011

Barn owls for Huddersfield Narrow Canal

NEW barn owl nest boxes have been installed today (Thursday) at Tunnel End Reservoir next to Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in a bid to help the plight of this threatened bird and help them flourish in some canal side homes.

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Published: 03 March 2011

Moorings for shopping

IN THE past it was impossible to get a mooring outside the Tesco store inĀ  Aylesbury on the branch of the Grand Union Canal as all the towpath was taken up by the resident continuous moorers.

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Published: 03 March 2011

British Waterways gives reprieve

A COUPLE facing eviction from their home have been given a six months reprieve by British Waterways, Alan Tilbury reveals.

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Published: 03 March 2011

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Latest

  • 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
  • Trust removes abandoned boats from Erewash Canal
  • Canals, Castles and Conservation
  • Problems caused by beavers
  • Glasson Branch repair will take 'several weeks'
  • Breach boats to be recovered
  • Langollen Canal closed again
  • 'Private Eye' tells it like it is!
  • Chesterfield Canal cleared of pollution this month
  • Belongings left by Avon belonged to drowned man
  • Paddles repaired on two locks

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