TONY Dunkley being denied access to the Meadow Lane Wharf on the Trent, by Stuart Garner of CaRT's enforcement team, the wharf on which his commercial boat was moored has raised a question for me, writes Pam Pickett.
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I JUST have to ask, but does the return of a measly £25,000 for an outlay of just under one and half million quid sound like a good investment to you?
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IT WOULD seem that these days people walking the towpaths have to be very much alert, as the latest is a man with a knife threatening towpath walkers, with one woman jumping into the canal to escape.
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WORK is continuing on the repair of the quadrant of Lock 31 on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal (Huddersfield closed again) that should be open today (Saturday).
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WITH the ever increasing number of boat fires on the waterways, many fire services are carrying out rescue procedures on the canals, with the one tomorrow (Sunday) being the latest.
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A MAN has been arrested over the death of a woman on a narrowboat moored on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) Waterways Partnerships, some of which were formed three years ago, have raised just £25,000 towards the work of the Trust, writes Allan Richards.
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A MAN attempting to jump across a narrow lock in Birmingham who fell into the water has been described as hilarious, but there is nothing hilarious about it.
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I SUSPECT that there is confusion between what the GPS recording system is expected to do and what it is not. CaRT has no need to prove how far you have moved, be it 20 miles or 200. What they do need to do is to identify those who appear not to have moved (enough), writes Mike Todd.
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THE Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum's former working narrowboat Sculptor, which has lain idle since being an exhibit in 1986, was loaded with coal at the bottom of the Stoke Bruerne lock flight last weekend, working the first time for 25 years.
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