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Real mooring wardens

IT HAS been reported in narrowboatworld that ‘CaRT wants boat wardens'. Well I never! Exclaims Orph Mable.

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Published: 01 September 2014

Email: All should obey

Just a line from the south of France, (no not on a boat). We, that is the Captain and I agree with every word that Victor has put in his piece No way José.

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Published: 01 September 2014

Police chase car into canal

A CAR driver attempting to escape the police took to the towpath of the Lee at Waltham Cross, but ended up in the waterway.

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Published: 01 September 2014

Interest in Wendover Arm

THE Wendover Arm Trust (WAT) organised a Walk & Talk for members of the Watford & District Industrial History Society, with some 20 people walking along to Tringford Pumping Station where John Kearsey of CaRT gave a slide show and guided tour, writes Peter Lloyd.

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Published: 01 September 2014

Taxi in a hurry

A TAXI driver was in so much of a hurry that he risked going under a falling barrier of a mechanical canal swing bridge and was stuck on the bridge as it swung open.

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Published: 01 September 2014

What an idiot

A THIEF who was wanted in connection with arson, made his getaway on a cruiser on the Kennet & Avon Canal—up the Caen Hill Flight!

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Published: 30 August 2014

Only ourselves to blame

IN REPLY to the article written by Ralph Freeman. For once I strongly disagree with his article regarding mink, writes Peter Ponting.
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Published: 30 August 2014

Boat fired in marina

A CRUISER was torched at the new Islington Marina, at the junction of the Rochdale and Ashby canals in Manchester.

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Published: 29 August 2014

NBTA against new rules

THE National Bargee Travellers Association, (NBTA) has accused Canal & River Trust (CaRT) of publishing maps that defy law and geography.

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Published: 29 August 2014

Bridge needed attention

The photograph by Mike Todd of the failed abutment of Bridge 215 on the Oxford Canal certainly shows that work was needed.

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Published: 29 August 2014

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Latest

  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed
  • Clearing the water on accessible healthcare for boaters
  • Collapsed culvert keeps Staffs & Worcs Canal closed
  • Long closure caused by building demolition
  • Just one puppy lived of three dumped on canal towpath
  • Could be a long stoppage at Kennet & Avon lock
  • How the boat rescue was undertaken
  • Rain, rain and more rain
  • Two problems at Keadby Lock
  • Boaters emptying cassette toilets into canal
  • Stoke-on-Trent museums at risk
  • Seven months closure ends
  • Moorers taking part in Dogs Behaving Very Badly

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