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Braunston sewage IS a serious health issue

MICK Fitzgibbons writes that the overflowing sewage at Braunston has 'all the makings of a serious public health issue'—it does not have the makings of one, it is one. The sewage is next to a drinking water tap! Writes David Davis.

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Published: 06 September 2015

The Braunston stink

WE ARE on our annual pilgrimage around the canals and have moored up in Braunston, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Now it's FOUR 'Narrow' lock failures!

IN ADDITION to the recent closures of three locks on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, another has now been closed.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Ed Helps on BWML

IT SEEMS that it is not only narrowboatworld that is concerned about Canal & River Trust's marina subsidiary, British Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML makes a £877,642 loss!), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Email: Not all friends

Great article that! (Why can't we all be friends?) by Gareth Haines.
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Published: 04 September 2015

Why can't we all be friends?

I'VE ONLY been living afloat for a short while, but the canals have been in my blood since I can remember. I used to think of them as a place where class, money, social mobility and all of the other 'trappings' of a capitalist system didn't reach' writes  Gareth Haines.

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Published: 03 September 2015

Those broken locks

THE repair to Lock 8W on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal has now been completed and is open.

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Published: 03 September 2015

First ever Leigh Canal Festival

THE first ever Leigh Canal Festival is to be held on the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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Published: 03 September 2015

Now it's 59,000 defects!

THERE are growing concerns about the perilous state of the waterways under Canal & River Trust, with stoppages reaching a number never even approached in past years, with not just single closures, but at the moment three stoppages on two separate canals.

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Published: 02 September 2015

If ever proof was needed...

FROM all accounts it was chaotic at Buckby Locks on the Grand Union Canal when the broken lock was finally repaired enough to allow boats through after being closed for days.

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Published: 02 September 2015

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