WITH it now being the age of the volunteer, at least our waterways will be considerably less rubbish strewn, with those volunteers of Loughborough fishing a record 21 bikes out of the waterway.
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FOLLOWING swiftly behind the news that the number of visitors to British Waterways' canals and rivers fell in 2010, comes news that boating is also in decline, writes Allan Richards.
A DERELICT Boathouse in Back of Avon at Tewkesbury cannot be demolished as it houses bats.
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PLANNING permission has been granted for more of the waterside Brentford Lock West regeneration scheme by the side of the Grand Union Canal.
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TRADERS and residents living by Bar Lane Swing Bridge at Riddlesden on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are upset as the bridge has been locked open preventing pedestrian and vehicle traffic over the waterway.
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GLOUCESTER Waterways Museum starts the season with its events during May, including cruises on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.
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IN A very weak-sounding response, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, declined to call-in the unpopular planning consent for building four large blocks of flats on Essex Wharf in the Lee Valley Regional Park.
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OUR Ralph Freeman thought that boaters would like to see a few photographs of the endangered species taken at Sandon Lock on the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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AS PREVIOUSLY reported, British Waterways is recruiting people to sit on the various Boards, and is at present concentrating on the West Midlands and North West areas.
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THE Wey & Arun Canal Trust has recently launched a new initiative aimed at encouraging young people to volunteer with tasks such as helping with the trip boats and certain restoration works along the line of the canal.
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