FIVE men, jumping into rivers and a lake to cool-off, have now lost their lives.
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THE wintry wet and windy weather continued throughout Spring into Summer, the constant rain lashing the Fens with the odd dry day. So much for global warming, the Fens just had the wettest June on record with more than double the monthly rainfall.
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THE Environmental Agency has decided to close the Barmby Tidal Barrage on the Ouse for four months for 'maintenance'.
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A MAN wanting to 'cool-off' jumped into the Trent in Burton-on-Trent, but it was not a sensible thing to do.
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LACK of water on the Liverpool Link is preventing boaters navigating through Stanley Dock.
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ACCORDING to Canal & River Trust the sales of junior rod licences has dropped by over a half during the past six years, so it has launched a campaign to attempt to reverse the decline.
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IT WAS boater Mike Schofield from Lytham St Anne's who has won the competition open to British Waterway Marina Ltd (BWML) moorers of a free year's boating that included his moorings, boat licence, insurance and even a £300 chandlery voucher.
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JUST to be 'balanced' on the side of no one, I have a Shurflo pump on my narrowboat and it is the second in use as a standard water pump, write Ian Egleton.
GOOD to see that, as Ralph says, things have improved on the Trent & Mersey, writes Martin Cox.
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MOORING at ‘the wrong places' isn't confined to Alrewas. It happens across the network, writes Jimmy Lockwood.
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