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Chesterfield Canal History Days

THE Chesterfield Canal Trust will be showing some of the treasures from its archive at Hollingwood Hub that includes an original copy of the 1771 Act of Parliament, which enabled the canal to be built.

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Published: 16 April 2015

Cruise the River Great Ouse

AFTER its winter maintenance the John Bunyan trip boat is ready to start a new season on the River Great Ouse at Bedford.

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Published: 16 April 2015

Bargees will not be intimidated

THE National Bargees Travellers Association (NBTA) is going all-out to strengthen itself against what its members believe is pressure from the Canal & River Trust to evict them from the waterways by its new rules.

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Published: 16 April 2015

Own risk assessment in tunnels

I DO NOT have the statistics but suspect that the number of deaths in tunnels, since the massive number of souls lost in constructing the tunnels, must be in the single figures area writes John Howard.

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Published: 15 April 2015

Canal body parts—man convicted

THE man responsible for cutting-up a man's body, cramming it in a suitcase and dumping it in a Birmingham Canal has been convicted of murder.

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Published: 15 April 2015

Email: Life jackets in tunnels

Reading David Hymers' piece about the tunnel notices reminded me about when I hired from Gailey Marine last month.

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Published: 15 April 2015

CaRT's £100,000 court case

THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) spent over £100,000 in legal fees to obtain a court order allowing it to seize a historic boat, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 15 April 2015

Draconian and disproportionate

I HAD hoped that the furore over towpath evictions conducted by CaRT and the resulting bad publicity was a thing of the past, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 15 April 2015

No consultation again

I HAVE just been looking at a CaRT webpage about the proposal to convert bridges on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal to be remotely controlled, writes Amy Dickerson.
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Published: 13 April 2015

CaRT v continuous cruiser

LISTEN to a  conversation between a representative of Canal & river Trust and a continuous cruiser whose boat has broken down and is unable to move—HERE.

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Published: 13 April 2015

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