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Taking issue with Victor

I must take issue with Victor regarding his article 'We are on our own', writes Brian Jarrett.

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Published: 29 July 2019

The worst decision we ever made

AS YOU champion boaters I don't expect this article will see the light of day, writes Josie Blackburn.

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Published: 29 July 2019

Broad beams on narrow canals

MADNESS should also refer to CART, for allowing a wide beam to be on a narrow canal.  Does it have a licence? Because I can't see a registration number or anything showing on a window, writes Alan Baker.

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Published: 29 July 2019

Working holidays boost canal restoration

VOLUNTEERS from across the UK and France have spent three weeks in July helping restore the Wey & Arun Canal.

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Published: 29 July 2019

Victor: We are on our own

OUR contributor John Coxon asks: Do we run from the bullies—or fight?  Referring of course to the mass of failures and closures to our waterways.

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Published: 28 July 2019

Madness!

BroadbeamBirminghamA FRIEND of mine took this picture in Birmingham last weekend of a stuck broad beam boat, writes Kevin McNiff.

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Published: 27 July 2019

Do we run from the bullies—or fight?

TONY Brooks effectively said he was fed up with CaRT's ways so was selling up but in the next paragraph states that 'boaters should stand up and be counted now', writes John Coxon.

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Published: 27 July 2019

Woman 'badly burnt' in marina gas explosion

 A WOMAN has been 'badly burnt' and two people injured after a gas explosion at Upton Marina on the Severn.

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Published: 26 July 2019

How can concerns be raised?

IN THE piece What about its customers Tony Brooks opines that CaRT has, possibly, 'gone rogue and out of control', writes Bill Ridgeway.

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Published: 26 July 2019

Ambulance for liveaboard family 'roasting' in narrowboat

AN AMBULANCE was called to a boating family who were taken to hospital with heat exhaustion.

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Published: 26 July 2019

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Latest

  • Deeply regret but illness causes lack of publication
  • Flood warning on the Trent
  • Water, water, everywhere
  • Still no paddles for lock on Glasson Branch
  • More problems at Penkridge Lock
  • Two repairs will take longer than first expected
  • More problems with Bidford Bridge over the Avon
  • Two more 'winter works' cancelled
  • Good news for Canal & River Trust
  • Lee Navigation lock remains closed to navigation
  • Café turns to cyclists as it has fewer boaters
  • Swing bridge and paddle failures
  • Paddle hubs encourage people on to the Birmingham canals
  • Two more 'winter works' added
  • Source of Chesterfield Canal pollution still not found
  • Keadby Lock is still closed
  • Canal & River Trust's greater enforcement powers is not the answer
  • New top gates for flight lock
  • Bridgewater Canal breach stabilisation completed
  • Maintenance Team volunteers needed

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