Wrong lock on wrong canal!

BOATERS will benefit from dredging to keep the Soar in Leicester navigable, supporting local communities and wildlife, tells Canal & River Trust.

Then goes on to quote the trust is using enlisted help of specialist contractors to remove over 1,100 tonnes of silt from the river in the city over the next four weeks, reports Janet Friend.

Then telling the work is being carried out on a 500 metre section of the river at the broad Limekiln Lock, near Abbey Park, as well as at Freemans Meadow Lock, near the King Power Stadium.

Boost to business

It then adds the trust  have raised £140,000 In order to carry out the works, which will improve navigation for boaters, making a visit to Leicester more attractive and providing a welcome boost to local businesses. 

It carries on quoting the usual from the trust of how such dredging is so vital to keep the waterways open and help wildlife by removing harmful plastics from the water, then includes a picture, demonstrating the locks being dredged.

Which is rather a blunder, as it looks remarkably like the narrow Branston Lock on the Trent & Mersey! It really should know better!