ANYONE reading narrowboatworld will know that the Rochdale Canal is a favourite haunt for vandals, but it is getting so bad that a Canal Watch has been instigated by police and councils.
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OVER £5 millions is to be spent between November and March on maintenance and upgrading facilities of the locks on a single waterway—not BW locks however.
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A stunned silence from user groups has greeted British Waterways 2008/9 Annual Report and Accounts with the realisation that reserves are being used to prop up its failing property businesses, writes Allan Richards.
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AFTER the refusal to grant planning permission for the new marina at Lantham on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, another seems in jeopardy, this time on the Stratford Canal.
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TWO thieves who altogether broke into 18 boats on the River Great Ouse were quickly caught and have both been jailed.
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FOR the second time planning permission for a marina on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Lathom has been refused.
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I have heard reports that BW West Midlands has a new mooring patrol officer walking the towpaths. The 'white shirt' in question has ruffled a few feathers of the continuous mooring brigade in the Fradley area in particular, I understand, writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE restoration of the Cotswold Canals has received a further boost with an injection of £12 millions.
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BOATS have been refused admission to the council owned basin on the Ouse in York, leaving them in danger when the river floods.
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