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All ready for the boating season?

TODAY, Good Friday, is the start of the boating season, when many of you will be ready for boating on Canal & River Trust's waterways, writes Tom Crossley.

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Published: 07 April 2023

Freight preparation on the Aire & Calder

IT WAS last October that it was announced the Aire & Calder Navigation was being prepared for freight.

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Published: 07 April 2023

No River Festival for Stratford this year

IT HAS been confirmed that the Stratford Festival will not be happening in 2023, writes Roger Fox.

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Published: 07 April 2023

NBTA To Hold Boaters Spring Fayre in Hackney

THE National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is holding a Boaters’ Spring Fayre community event this month.

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Published: 07 April 2023

Those winter works

THE so called 'winter works' should be just about over now, writes John Coxon.

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Published: 06 April 2023

FIVE waterway closures this week at start of 'season'

THE closure yesterday, Wednesday, of Anthony Lock (77) on the Rochdale Canal makes it five waterways closures already this week.

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Published: 06 April 2023

Council and canal trust join to undertake canal restoration

A DISUSED section of the Chesterfield Canal is to be restored by Derbyshire County Council and Chesterfield Canal Trust for the benefit of local residents, visitors and wildlife, we are informed.

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Published: 05 April 2023

Still more closures

WITH what is called the 'season' fast approaching there are a great many waterway closures.

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Published: 05 April 2023

Vandals attack Wey & Arun Canal restoration

MAJOR damage to the restored Wey & Arun Canal in Loxwood was discovered on Sunday morning.

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Published: 05 April 2023

Now it's FOUR Aire & Calder closures!

THE failure now of Leeds Lock on the Aire & Calder makes it four lock failures in three weeks.

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Published: 05 April 2023

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Latest

  • Smoke control comes into force for narrowboats in Bimingham
  • Three stoppages still ongoing
  • EA stops Bristol Floating Harbour funding
  • Braunston Customer Service Facility now closed
  • Marsworth Flight reopened
  • Stoppages on Rochdale and Tame Valley canals
  • Another paddle failure
  • Another broken paddle on the Rochdale Canal
  • Environment Agency clearing more abandoned boats off the Thames
  • Attack just off the Coventry Canal towpath
  • Another mile of the Stroudwater Canal in water
  • Ripon takes the record
  • Canal town best place to live in the North
  • Quick repair to lock cill
  • Getting through Beeston Lock
  • Will Penkridge Lock be open for Easter?
  • At last—a way off the Weaver
  • Nottingham Trent Basin to be lost
  • New waterside bridge in position
  • Unexpected conditions preventing reopening of Beeston Lock

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