Swing bridge back in action
THIS time it was not a normal failure at Coxhead Swing Bridge on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Positions NOT redundant if still being done by volunteers
IN DEFENCE of Victor I have to say that I feel it to be a fact that unpaid volunteers are doing the work that was once done by paid staff, writes John Coxon.
Work still not started on K&A breach repair
Does not understand the advice
I ACCEPT that the warnings by the managing director of River Canal Rescue make sense, writes T Lang.
Problem logging-on?
THERE have been problems today (Monday) both preventing our uploading and people logging-on to the site.
Victor in trouble again!
OUR Victor did not do too well this time, with Trevor Mapstone putting him right by writing:
Volunteers have not taken jobs
REFERRING to the following statement by Victor, Giles Williams writes:
Big Lock footbridge engineers get award
THE engineers who undertook the repair work on the Big Lock footbridge have won an award.
Victor asks 'what are these 'emergency works'?
TIME and time again we are told that the winter stoppage cancellations are due 'to the impact of emergency works'.
Now its nine winter works cancelled
THREE more 'urgent' winter works have been cancelled making it a total of nine so far.