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Why a year to repair?

I REALLY have to ask why is it going to take a year to repair the damage to the small flight on the Calder & Hebble, T. Lang writes.

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Published: 21 February 2020

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

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Latest

  • No way off or on to the tidal Trent—again!
  • Well known landmark to be demolished
  • Loco Lift Bridge worked for three days
  • Disconnected paddle keeps Wigan Flight closed
  • Open weekend to raise funds for link
  • Lack of water closes Huddersfield Narrow
  • Two more canal closures yesterday
  • More volunteers required
  • Broads boaters clobbered for not paying tolls
  • Loco Lift Bridge working again
  • Seven paddle failures in eight days!
  • Cam and Great Ouse cut off from rest of network
  • Update at last on Daw End Canal
  • Steam festival at Anderton Boat Lift
  • Two stoppages yesterday
  • How much longer will pollution take to clear?
  • Cash award to Grantham Canal
  • Power cables cause safety hazard
  • Navigations now reopened
  • More paddle failures close waterways

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