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Boat to raise funds

THE Kennet & Avon Canal Trust has leased a 60ft passenger boat the Kenavon Venture from White Horse Boats, to help raise funds for the trust.

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Published: 22 January 2010

16 new gates for Caen Hill

OVER the the next 12 weeks 16 new lock gates are to be installed on the famous Caen Hill Flight on the Kennet & Avon Canal at Devizes.

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Published: 22 January 2010

£1,195 costs for speeding boater

THERE is one waterway where boaters really must not speed—and that's the Thames.

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Published: 22 January 2010

Volunteers wanted

STROUD District Council must use volunteers to both meet a condition of the £11.9million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and also to keep the restoration project of the Stroud Canals within budget.

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Published: 21 January 2010

The Broads can do it

THE Broads Authority have no trouble meeting its target for dredging its waterways, even exceeding it.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Lucky escape on the Soar

INVESTIGATIONS are going on into how two teenagers were allowed to take to the flooded Soar in Leicester from the Outdoor Pursuits centre on a raft.

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Published: 21 January 2010

Waiting for permission

THOUGH a bridge over the Rochdale Canal at Todmorden is is urgent need of repair, work cannot start.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Boat fire was arson

THE police maintain that arsonists were responsible for the narrowboat fire on the river at Ware.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Anglers castigated

ANGLERS are being castigated in letters to local papers and blogs after a swan had to be put down after suffering for weeks through anglers' insensibility to the creatures, and 45 others effected.

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Published: 20 January 2010

Girl murdered on K&A towpath

A TEENAGE girl was found dead yesterday (Monday) on the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal at Reading.

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Published: 19 January 2010

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