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Yob slings boater's puppy off building

A YOB threw a boater's puppy off a 50ft car park in Oxford after it had strayed from the narrowboat.

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Published: 21 October 2011

Boat explodes

ANOTHER boat has exploded, this time it is believed it was petrol stored in the engine compartment.

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Published: 21 October 2011

Tom o' the Wood re-opens

THE Tom o' the Wood Pub at Rowington on the Grand Union Canal has re-opened after a refurbishment.

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Published: 21 October 2011

Good Grantham event

DESPITE  rain and gale force winds, over 300 people attended the Grantham Canal Society's Discovery Day which raised £1,000, with the society rating it the most successful event it has organised to date.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Grim Reaper at Standedge

IT IS nearing Halloween time, so again the Standedge Tunnel & Visitor Centre is preparing itself for a busy week as it gets its grim reaper tunnel trips ready.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Suggestions for Canal & River Trust

LEST I be branded as negative here are a few suggestions as to what the Transition Trustees should really be doing, offers Ralph Freeman.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Grieving family will cut back vegetation

THE grieving family of the eight years old boy who explored the vegetation by the side of a waterway then drowned, say they will cut back the vegetation themselves as British Waterways won't do it.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Canal & River Trust logo

THERE has been quite an interest in the Canal & River Trust logo, particularly concerning the lack of any reference to boating or waterways.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Will not improve their dilapidated state

THE answer to Ralph's question regarding who painted the gear at Great Heywood lock is a group of people who were on community service.

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Published: 20 October 2011

Doesn't want mooring

THE owner of a floating hotel has campaigned for years to get a mooring on the Thames in Henley, but now that he at last has been offered it—he's turned it down!

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Published: 19 October 2011

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