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Worse flooding at Sawley

THE flood at Sawley Marina became worse yesterday with the improved flood defence finally over-topped.

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Published: 20 February 2020

It's the same culvert!

HARD on the heels of the Rochdale Canal culvert failure, Canal & River Trust reports yet another.

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Published: 20 February 2020

Rochdale culvert damaged

IT WAS realised after re-filling an empty pound on the Rochdale Canal that again drained away. that there was a leak.

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Published: 20 February 2020

Calder & Hebble closed for 12 months

THE Canal & River Trust tell that the Calder & Hebble Navigation will be closed for 12 months!

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Published: 19 February 2020

'Please make sure you close the lock gates...

F2FloodLOck

Sawley Flood Lock this morning, Tuesday, is again a flood lock no longer.

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Published: 18 February 2020

Salutary lesson of 'life afloat' on inland waterways

JONATHAN C Purton’s experience of living aboard is a salutary lesson for everyone 'taken in' by the idyll that is life afloat on our beautiful, sunny and warm inland waterways.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Naïve narrowboat buyers

JUST read yet another article from a naïve narrowboat buyer, writes John Howard.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Three men in a boat

INSPIRED by Jerome K Jerome’s 1889 novel, Three Men In A Boat, three men are to row from Oxford to London in a fundraising challenge.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Man in canal was murdered

THE police have revealed that a man discovered in a canal had been murdered.

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Published: 17 February 2020

Another non reason mysterious closure!

THE navigation closure notices nowadays from Canal & River Trust are completely devoid of information.

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Published: 17 February 2020

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Latest

  • Not such a Happy Christmas on the Weaver
  • How a defective culvert can cause canal embankment collapse
  • Statement by Canal & River Trust on the Llangollen Canal breach
  • Repairs not ready for Christmas
  • Rarely have canals made national news
  • Canal breach site regularly inspected!
  • Bird Flue strikes the swans on the Avon
  • Conflicting information concerning the breach
  • Massive sink hole drains huge pound of Llangollen Canal
  • What has happened in the Fens over the past year?
  • Called it a day as nowhere to cruise
  • Bridgewater breach—a year on...
  • No cause to break the rules
  • Increasingly problems with certain categories of people living on boats
  • Continuous cruising licence is totally unsuitable
  • Man rescued from Weaver
  • Number of closures reported
  • Limited winter use of Foxton and Watford flights
  • John Coxon asks what the hell did they expect?
  • Fundraising Director for Canal & River Trust

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