WE HAVE become used to village shops closing and thereby inconveniencing hungry boaters. Good news! The last remaining shop in Stoke Golding on the Ashby Canal has reopened, writes Ian Reid.
EVERY year on the first Saturday in July a half marathon race is organised between Wolverhampton and Birmingham with runners following the course of the Birmingham Canal Main Line, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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IN THE space of three years, container traffic on the Manchester Ship Canal has risen from around 3,000 to nearly 15,000 sailings—resulting in an exceptional decrease in the number of lorry journeys.
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THE Canal & River Trust (CaRT) has admitted that it has no policy for dealing with vulnerable people, writes Allan Richards.
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LEAKING for many years, and the subject of many complaints from boaters, the lock gates at both Bank Newton and Gargrave on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are being repaired.
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THE Leeds & Liverpool Canal is closed for the rest of the month between Bridges 130 and 130A in Burnley.
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THE Veolia Environmental Trust, that gives money for community and environmental projects from the Landfill Fund has awarded the River Stour Trust £40,000 that will be used to install lock gates.
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WITH Canal & River Trust (CaRT) spending £800,000 to repair the failure of Buckland Lock on the Aylesbury Arm, it is little wonder that a boater is asking for an engineering report as to its cause, (Victor: What caused the failure?), writes Allan Richards.
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THOUGH a newspaper proclaimed the proposed High Speed rail network (HS2) will carve up the canal network, it will do nothing of the sort—but simply cross them, there being no likelihood of an established and navigable waterway being 'carved up'.
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THOUGH money is not available for proper maintenance of the Mon & Brec, money is being spent on completely unconnected stretches, that seems completely crazy, as David Davis explains:
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