THE Private Eye magazine has given its uptake on the Whitchurch breach and the Canal & River Trust.
It telling:
"The dramatic breach on the LLangollen Canal at Whitchurch last month highlighted once again the crumbling state of the UK's waterways.
It wasn't the only failure over the Christmas period: broken lock gates, stuck swing bridges and faulty boat lifts all left part of the network untravellable.
But who will pay to fix the ageing infrastructure? The Canal & River Trust, the charity formed by hiving off the state-run British Waterway Board (BWB) in 2012 currently faces a whopping financial shortfall having failed to live up to the expectations of the absurdly over confident BWB quangocrats who became its first leaders, claiming that within 15 years it would need little government funding and have 'improving' assets."
It then goes on to tell of the trust's licence review that is at 'loggerheads' with its canal users.