Following the imposition of handrails on footbridges after a young hothead fell in whilst cycling over it in a no cycling area, and the erection of fences in Manchester to protect drunks falling into the locks, can we now expect posts with three ropes across them around locks to protect drunken drugged-up shadow boxers?
Don't get me wrong, any death by accident is tragic, but the Health & Safety knee-jerk reactions put the blame anywhere but where it ought to be.
CaRT is a captive ‘culprit' when it comes to implementing Coroner's verdicts, and are unfairly charged with having to attempt to control the actions of others who cannot, or choose not to take their own safety into their own hands.
Martin Howes
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TODAY'S waterway closure is on the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal—Lock 3.
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THE narrowboat that sank in Fobney Lock (105) on the Kennet & Avon Canal over a week ago has now been raised and the waterway re-opened.
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RETURNING this week from five weeks cruising, I wonder where your contributor was cruising. I can honestly say that we had very little problem finding moorings along the Staffs & Worcs, Coventry, Oxford and Thames, writes Martin Howes.
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A TEENAGER drowned in a lock on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal whilst shadow boxing near its edge.
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PLANK Lane Bridge on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is still closed with a single opening each day at 2pm.
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I can commiserate with the boaters who had the broad locks to themselves through Leicester, as I have done it many times and only managed to get someone sharing once.
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WITH the failure of balance beams, there is a rudimentary testing of balance beams (and lock gates) in a simple process that I suspect most boaters do subconsciously when they operate the lock, writes Ralph Freeman, and suggests:
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A PIECE in the country's leading newspaper, The Times, complaining about Canal & River Trust's waterways, will come as a blow to the Trust as it does its best to cultivate the newspapers.
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A LOCK on the Montgomery Canal has been put completely out of action, it is believed by vandals.
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