CaRT to extend customer service to include week-ends
THE Canal & River Trust has at last responded to boaters complaints about their not being able to get in touch, particularly at week-ends.
Carrying on the tradition
LONG-TIME readers may remember Mr Asbo—the rather savage swan on the Cam at Cambridge that objected to people.
Burnley repair finished
AT LONG last the repair to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley is finished and the waterway open.
One stoppage cleared—another in place
IT WAS not such a bad 'leak and hole' on the Huddersfield Narrow after all as the problem between locks 28E and 29E on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal has been cleared, and the navigation reopened.
More Rochdale woes...
IN ADDITION to the current stoppage on the Rochdale, a broken paddle has caused another.
How many now?
JUST read your report that the Huddersfield Narrow Canal is out of action, writes James Henry.
Huddersfield Narrow breached
THE poor Huddersfield Narrow Canal is out of action yet again.
Victor: Still they come
STILL they come indeed—the urge for fancy boat lifts to replace locks.
A week of unhappy bunnies!
MOORED just off Fradley on the Coventry Canal, I can tell you it has been a week of very unhappy bunnies indeed, writes Edwin Forbes.
Rochdale will be closed for weeks
THERE has been little progress with the stoppage at Lock 66 at Failsworth, with its repair not scheduled until next week.