FELLOW boaters and friends are welcome to the funeral of Stuart Williams who died when he slipped on ice falling into the freezing canal.
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THOUGH the plans for a marina at North Kilworth on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal were refused last year, it is being proposed again.
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EXPERTS are at present investigating the appearance of foam and scum on the Shropshire Union Canal at Audlem.
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THOUGH British Waterways will give £2,500 towards a swan fence that a support group wants erecting by the canal at Middlewich, it wants others to take on its long term maintenance.
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TIMBER has arrived at the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to restore some of the historic canal boats.
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THE inquest into the death of Sam McKane who died after slipping into the Erewash Canal in December was opened, then adjourned.
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THE Waterways Trust has secured a £124,000 grant from the Big Lottery for the Rochdale Canal around Manchester, but not alas for boating.
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A LIVEABOARD discovered that the bag of coal he went to buy at a garage proved very expensive indeed—over £585.
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A TRIAL of six activists accused of trying to shut down Ratcliffe Power Station that was suddenly dropped, is worthy of a James Bond plot.
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CONSTRUCTION of a marina at Stripes Hill Farm on green belt land near Knowle Bottom Lock on the Grand Union is underway, writes Allan Richards.
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