We moor at Victoria Pit on the Macclesfield Canal, opposite our mooring is a boat called The Tea Cosy who has set up as a café with chairs and tables, serving tea and cakes from their boat.
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Would someone please explain to me why, having just paid £948 (after prompt payment discount) to navigate our canal system, I have just passed 4.2 miles of silky smooth asphalt being laid on the towpath from Selly Oak to Kings Norton Junction on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal?

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The latest tenant for the new Broadwalk development at Mercia Marina is a beauty therapist  Anna Bovey who will open her new salon at the premises.

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THE Canal & River Trust has announced £3m additional investment in its waterways, with most of it on dredging.

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IT IS a conundrum of epic proportions that will ultimately decide the outcome for the inland waterways. The Trust has finally awakened, if only to acknowledge the precipice that the age profile of the boat owning population holds for the future of the inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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WE WERE recently visited by the head of CaRT London Office after I had tweeted the National Volunteer Coordinator that CaRT did not seem interested to understand the Community Boaters' issues (we are affiliated to NCBA) and she put him in touch, writes Tony Bower.

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FOLLOWING its second failure to recruit ‘Friends' in anything like meaningful numbers (Chugging companies blamed again), Canal and River Trust (CaRT) is now recruiting a ‘Supporter Engagement Manager' to bolster its Individual Giving Team, writes Allan Richards.

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NOT a single one for five days, so no internet connection, then three arrive at once!
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FOLLOWING Allan Richards' initial query regarding the independence of the Ombudsman's scheme CaRT has come under further close scrutiny, writes Pam Pickett.

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TWO boaters on the Aire & Calder Navigation had no option but to leap off their boat with their dog when in caught fire. They could not get it into the side, so had no option but to go into the water, but luckily were picked up by the crew of a passing narrowboat, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Engine fire

As with the fire in the lock on the Ribble Link, it was the engine that caught fire, and the couple on board realising something was drastically wrong when they saw flames coming out. Again, the woodwork caught fire, and though the fire brigade attended and put out the fire, the boat was burnt out. The two on board both suffered in the fire, the woman from burns and the man from smoke inhalation and both were taken to hospital.

[Nothing to do with the above, but as the electricity people will be trimming the trees from the power lines that serve our premises, we will have no power for most of the day tomorrow (Friday), so updates could be few.]

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