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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WITHIN hours of the narrowboatworld article being published calling for Canal and River Trust's mooring auctions to be scrapped (Scrap them both) a petition has been started asking Cart's Trustees to withdraw its mooring consultation, writes Allan Richards.
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IT IS very good news that Fradley Junction will no longer be so badly affected by the route of the new HS2 railway, thanks to the IWA commissioning an engineering firm to design a different route that will actually be cheaper.
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THIS time it is the quadrant to the towpath side tail gate under a balance beam that has collapsed.
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FOR those of you who would like to see what the Chesterfield Canal Trust has done over the years, there are full day return cruises on the restored waterway, with plenty of choices.
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THIS time there is a boat well and truly stuck in Ironbridge Lock at Rickmansworth on the Grand Union Canal.
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FOLLOWING the sinking of the narrowboat at lock 23A at Dobcross last month, yet another has been caught out and sunk in the same lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) should take note of of the recent All Party Parliamentary Group for Waterways (APPG Waterways) report and scrap its hated moorings auctions system and its Waterway Partnerships, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Canal & River Trust is inviting people to take part in a new consultation about how it sells its long-term moorings.
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