IT WAS a long civil court case that caused Andrew Bell to close his café situated by the weir on the Avon in Bath, but is open once again.
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The body of an 11 years old boy was dragged from the Fitzwilliam Canal in Parkgate at Rotherham last night (Thursday) at around 11pm after a search operation.
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The use of coir rolls instead of proper piling on canal banks is inductive of the way Canal & River Trust now operates, writes James Henry.
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CRUISING the length of the Basingstoke Canal, as we did a couple of weeks ago, takes me back to my early years of boating in the 70s and 80s.
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The Regent's Canal in the capital is currently closed due to the failure of the lock at its junction with the Hertford Union Canal.
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I can but agree with T Lang about the uselessness of coir rolls fastened to canal banks, and concur that not only do they not stable banks, but do the opposite, and are pointless is providing habitats for insects as is claimed.
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I HAVE just finished a three weeks cruise on my narrowboat that included the Oxford Canal, and just cannot understand the need for all those coir rolls that are being installed on the towpath side of the canal, writes T Lang.
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FIVE men, jumping into rivers and a lake to cool-off, have now lost their lives.
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THE wintry wet and windy weather continued throughout Spring into Summer, the constant rain lashing the Fens with the odd dry day. So much for global warming, the Fens just had the wettest June on record with more than double the monthly rainfall.
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