narrowboatworld
  • Home
  • Information
  • Contact Us
  • Hire Guide

Youth jumped in canal to escape

A YOUTH refused to clean up his vomit in the back of a taxi in Walsall, instead smashing its windows and a mirror and escaping by jumping in the Walsall Canal.

Details
Published: 28 April 2016

Jail for raping woman on towpath

THE canal towpaths are proving very unsafe places these days with the ever increasing number of attacks now being recorded.

Details
Published: 28 April 2016

Many boats sunk in locks

It must be obvious to most that Canal & River Trust does all it can to make out that the canals and particularly the locks are safe for boating, writes T. Lang.

Details
Published: 28 April 2016

Had enough!

I AM on the cold Trent & Mersey Canal at the moment, moored by two hire boats, with both of the hirers new to the game, but who have had enough, writes James Henry.

Details
Published: 28 April 2016

Another stoppage in the making?

CLIMBING up Adderley Locks yesterday (April 26th) Lock 3 (pictured below) leaks so badly that we had to use the boat to push open the top gate, as level water could not be reached, writes Ralph Thomason.

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

Another K&A lock closure

HARD on the heels on the news of the closure of Wooton Top Lock on the Kennet & Avon Canal, a further lock is now closed to navigation on the waterway.

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

And another sunk?

OWING to the new descriptions regarding stoppages, is there another boat sunk in a lock?

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

Anothe boat sinks in lock

YOU can always tell when the boating season starts—by the increase in the number of boats sinking in locks.

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

Police officer dived in

ONE police officer at least jumped into a waterway without first undertaking a 'dynamic risk assessment' with his superiors, so saving a man's life.

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

Droitwich Show

ANOTHER show over the Bank Holiday weekend will be at Droitwich in Vines Park by the Droitwich Canal.

Details
Published: 27 April 2016

Page 766 of 1344

  • 761
  • 762
  • 763
  • 764
  • 765
  • 766
  • 767
  • 768
  • 769
  • 770

Latest

  • Limited winter use of Foxton and Watford flights
  • John Coxon asks what the hell did they expect?
  • Fundraising Director for Canal & River Trust
  • Article two from the National Bargee Travellers Association
  • Santa takes to the Thames
  • Digbeth Branch still closed
  • Massive development by Bridgewater Canal
  • Lock with void attended to yesterday
  • GPS tracking devices for boats is latest Canal & River Trust proposal
  • Still no information on North Stratford Canal void and Staff & Worcs closed
  • Canal warehouse turned into cafĂ©
  • Diesel spillage taking weeks to clear
  • Vandals knock lift bridge off its mountings!
  • Happiest town to live in the UK is by a canal
  • Lancaster Canal has most bridge strikes
  • Sunken houseboat to be removed
  • Further assessment required on lock void
  • Police targeted before trying to save man in canal
  • Unable to get equipment to repair lock
  • Doncaster Lock transformed

Search