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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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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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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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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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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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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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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THOUGH not having the ghostly tunnel of Standedge, the National Waterways Museum are still hoping to give some frights at two fright nights at Halloween.
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ONE system of gaining volunteers to look after the waterways is getting companies to adopt stretches to do the work.
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THE massive contamination of the Wyrley and Essington Canal and Old Main Line is showing sign of recovery in the fight to contain pollution.
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