BOTH the waterways and their towpaths were virtually deserted on New Years Day, with the exception of boaters on the Cam in Cambridge.
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I BELIEVE that 2017 will mark an end to leisure boating as we have known it, writes Martin Brooks.
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THE Pontcysyllte Aqueduct gaining World Heritage Site status has been a blessing to trip boat operator Peter Jones and his two narrowboats.
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If the Environment Agency (EA) is to make rules they should ensure they are intra vires (they have the authority to do so), reasonable and practical, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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OUR regular walk on Christmas Day takes us to Teddington Lock and across the river to a very amenable pub in Teddington where the first pint was free this year! Writes Roger Fox.
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REGARDING your comment about the Environment Agency (EA) and its complete disregard for the [mooring] rules, this is no surprise to me whatsoever, writes Paul Jenkins.
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I was most pleased to read that one of the youths who attacked that teenager on the [Stourbridge Canal] towpath had been jailed.
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ANYONE who uses the Middlewich Arm of the Shropshire Union Canal will be pleased to hear that the new bottom gates at Minshull Lock now hold water, and the new paddle gear is much easier to work, writes Linda Andrews.
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With reference to your article on 23rd December regarding new arrangements for the Environment Agency (EA) Thames visitor moorings, perhaps there are several points visiting boaters might like to take into account before swallowing this latest piece of idiotic abrogation of responsibility by the EA, writes David Mercer.
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A TEENAGER who was part of a gang that attacked a young man who was sheltering under a canal bridge has been jailed for three years.
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