FOLLOWING the sinking of the narrowboat at lock 23A at Dobcross last month, yet another has been caught out and sunk in the same lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
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THE Canal and River Trust (CaRT) should take note of of the recent All Party Parliamentary Group for Waterways (APPG Waterways) report and scrap its hated moorings auctions system and its Waterway Partnerships, writes Allan Richards.
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THE Canal & River Trust is inviting people to take part in a new consultation about how it sells its long-term moorings.
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OUR experience of the volunteers, over the summer has been largely positive, writes Martin Howes.
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I really cannot see the problem. Watermate Keys and vandal keys have always been readily available from chandlers, local shops, waterway offices and adjacent businesses. I cannot recall ever having been asked if I am entitled to one.
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I WOULD suggest Paul Griffin is talking out of his stern tube. It doesn't matter whether the unit used by spotters is using GPS or not, (Is system fit for purpose?) writes Ralph Freeman.
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THERE is a campaign underway—by students—to allow them to use Bristol Harbour for swimming!
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A TEENAGER was found in the Huddersfield Narrow Canal on Saturday, and was pronounced dead later at hospital.
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In defence of Atherstone Locks, we now have a team of 16 volunteer lock keepers having had six new persons join us in August and our rota shows the flight is manned every day with at least one and sometimes up to four on duty writes Roger Hart.
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THE result of Canal & River Trust now locking Fradley Swing Bridge after Mick Fitzgibbons pointed out in narrowboatworld its danger to the children playing on it, it is now to be locked closed.
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