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Grand Union reopened

BY MOVING the excess flood water down the pounds, the Grand Union Canal that was closed due to flooding is again open after the spell of dry weather.
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Published: 11 February 2014

Trial of London moorings

THE Canal & River Trust is proposing to trial a range of temporary changes to the moorings at Paddington Basin and the Little Venice Pool in London to meet a wider range of mooring needs over the coming summer. The initiative follows feedback from boaters and boating groups.

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Published: 10 February 2014

Cotswolds flood damage

WITH the adverse weather conditions continuing, the Cotswold Canal Trust have had a major setback with the newly installed Dudbridge Locks, on the Stroudwater Canal Restoration, writes Peter Ponting.

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Published: 10 February 2014

See it to believe it

SINCE publishing the Evasive answers article this morning by Allan Richards, we have now included the two three year plans of Canal & River Trust.

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Published: 10 February 2014

£2.5 millions for Caldon

Staffordshire County Council and Pedal Peak District are to spend a total of £3.5 million pounds on the Caldon Canal—but alas not on the waterway itself but just the towpath.

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Published: 10 February 2014

Evasive answers

THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) open meeting in Birmingham in January went well according to press reports, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 10 February 2014

Victor: An Open Meeting

ONE thing that must be stated about our new boss man, Richard Parry, he is certainly mixing amongst the boaters, and is listening, but I must say he is a past master at evasion—there were not many 'yes','no' answers to the questions at his Open Meeting yesterday at Nottingham.

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Published: 09 February 2014

Meeting was a success

WE ARE told that the first Open Meeting, where Canal & River Trust's Chief Executive Richard Parry met his customers and answered their concerns was quite a success.

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Published: 08 February 2014

Another Sawley theft

BOATER Mike Bass is complaining again about theft from his boat moored in Sawley Marina, having lost another outboard engine.

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Published: 08 February 2014

Grand Union Canal floods

THE unprecedented amount of rain over the past days has put a great deal of the lower Grand Union Canal out of action, with much of the South East section now flooded.

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Published: 08 February 2014

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