THE excellent article by Mick Fitzgibbons prompts me to state that something should be done about the sharing of the towpaths with walkers and cyclists, for eventually someone is either going to be forced into a canal and drowned or killed by being knocked over and hitting their head on the hard surface, writes James Henry.
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THIS year, Dudley Canal Trust's Father Christmas has a very special request—he wants children to send him a Christmas card.
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JUST having had another a close call with a cyclist on the towpath while walking the dog, Mick Fitzgibbons believes it is time to give the Trust another reminder.
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CONCERNING the email by Chris Hutchins telling of the behaviour of rowers on the Soar, Rod Fox writes:
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I know that speeding canoeists are bad enough, but the speed that rowers flirt downstream on the Soar above Kegworth Deep Lock must take some beating.
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A FEW days ago Canal & River Trust (CaRT) issued a press release headlining as ‘New £20 million development planned for canalside site' writes Allan Richards.
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IT IS not enough to tell inexperienced boaters to keep forward when descending a lock, writes Mike Todd.
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NOTWITHSTANDING a CaRT spokesman stating there are only 'a handful of sinking a year', the situation has become such a problem that the industry met with the Trust to establish an accepted procedure for raising the ever increasing number of boats sunk in locks.
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I was under the, obviously mistaken, impression that you only included stories concerning narrowboats and that canoeists did not come under your remit, but pleased to see that they do.
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