As part of this year's Heritage Open Days and Ellesmere Festival the Canal & River Trust (CaRT) will be relighting the historic forge within the waterway yard.
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MERCIA Marina is holding its biggest annual family festival this weekend to coincide with its 5th anniversary celebrations.
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THE Cotswold Canals Trust and the Stroud Valleys Canal Company, working together in a joint project, have completed their hydro electric scheme at Dudbridge.
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THIS time it is one of the two boats sharing Lock 41 that had lifted the coping stones, so once again Caen Hill Flight was closed to navigation just a few days after it was reopened after a gate was dislodged.
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FROM time to time we learn of Giant Hogweed by canal towpaths (Poisonous plant back in the canals) that is poisonous to humans.
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WORK to replace the lower gates at Lock 18 at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir has now been completed by volunteers, ensuring that the navigable stretch of the Grantham Canal from the A1 to Woolsthorpe can be further extended by nearly a mile.
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IT APPEARS that the focus of Canal & River Trust (CaRT) currently, is a major review of the licensing, charging and managing of the thousand plus boating related businesses within its bailiwick, writes Orph Mable.
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AFTER two years trading Smokie Joe's bird cowls are being spotted more often on the waterways as a solution to back draught in wood burning stoves.
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THE campaign to make the Southern Oxford Canal a safer place for boating started in narrowboatworld (Neglected South Oxford) has been taken up by BBC News Oxford.
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AT THE moment our illustrious editor Thomas and colleague Jan are somewhat unhappy bunnies, being nearly a thousand quid poorer for something that was mostly left to be resorted.
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