A LOCK on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal has been damaged we are told by Canal & River Trust, suggesting it is a boat that has caused the problem.
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THIS year Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust are running a project called Secret Santa in partnership with local organisations who work with families in financial hardship.
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THE Bulbourne barbecue on the summit pound of the Grand Union Canal is now derelict with the metal fire pan corroded and collapsed adding to the pile of litter below.
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While I sympathise with boaters who have problems with lock gates opening or closing at inopportune moments there are other ways to help avoid damage, suggests Bob Hallam.
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There could be a very easy answer to the issue of using unbalanced lock gates, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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My Good Lady was very impressed just how strong Thames lock keepers (male and female) were until we had to work ourselves through a ‘self service’ lock, writes Iain Jones.
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THE two boats that were used to ferry people to the Olympics have been converted into a floating restaurant and moored at Paddington Basin.
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It seems that broken lock gates are now coming thick and fast with the one at Derwent Mouth the latest to be uprooted from its foundations, writes Jim Cracken.
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LIKE, it would seem many other boaters, I don't see the point of the new licensing consultation [by Canal & River Trust] as it is, as another of your contributors told, pre-formatted and not open to suggestions, writes James Henry.
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THE North Walsham & Dilham Canal now has a mile of waterway open for navigation owing to the work of volunteers.
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