Objectors don't want student flats by canal
NEW plans for Leamington canal side student flats have been re-submitted after original plans were withdrawn.
Sick joke caused police search
THE police in Birmingham responded to the report of a body in a canal, but discovered it was a sick joke.
Bugs to control invasive canal weed
THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust is enlisting the help of 1,000 tiny bugs to help control an invasive water fern which can clog the waterway and threaten other plants, fish and invertebrae.
No CART employees though torrents the previous evening
I HAD been videoing and photographing the situation [at Toddbrook Reservoir] since Sunday prior to the incident, writes Mrs. L Hartley.
Make-shift and inadequate repair of canal structure
Despite Richard Parry's response on national television that they had money for maintenance, writes Brian D Jarrett.
Standedge Tunnel still closed
STANDEDGE Tunnel that was closed on Monday has still not been reopened.
How can it be taken to a higher level?
I AGREE with John Coxon that 'We need a full public enquiry into this incident and all the other failures of the system supposedly maintained by CaRT', writes Bill Ridgeway.
Dismal maintenance in the full public eye
THE growing evidence against CaRT’s dismal maintenance of the dam is now in the full public eye, writes Kevin McNiff.
Here come the excuses
I'VE HEARD heard some rubbish from CaRT but this really takes the biscuit, It now says: 'Toddbrook dam was inspected twice a week'! writes John Coxon.
Binned IWA subscription
ON FRIDAY I received my annual application for membership of the Inland Waterways Association, and have binned it, writes Joan Phillips.