YET another boat has been wrecked by fire, this time at Lathom near Ormskirk, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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More than a dozen grown men were slopping around in mud at the weekend, as volunteers from the Waterway Recovery Group helped the Chesterfield Canal Trust's Work Party members to clear a lock.
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Many visitors to the 20th OwnerShips Show at Braunston last weekend would have been mystified at the name Hamish Leys on the side of the its most recently launched narrowboat, writes Allan Richards.
PART of British Waterways' winter maintenance includes work on the Caldon Canal, with Flint Mill Lock getting new gates.
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BOATERS who purchased a Seago life jacket manufactured between 2005 and 2007 are being told to return them for checking as they could be unsafe.
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THE Waterways Trust is giving grants of up to £5,000 for projects along the non-tidal Thames, from Cricklade to Teddington.
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THE Jolly Boatman at Thrupp on the Oxford Canal will soon be a proper boaters pub, when boater Andrew Cannon completes its canal theme.
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Despite very mixed weather over the weekend of 30th/31st January the Shropshire Union Canal Society had a good turnout of volunteers to its first work party of the year, writes Paul Mills.
RANGERS on the Grand Western Canal towpath are now spraying dog faeces with pink paint to try and combat the increasing problem of owners failing to clean up after their dogs.
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PLANNING permission for the controversial plans for the new marina at Soudley on the Shropshire Union Canal is still being withheld.
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