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Boy falls from Marple Viaduct

A BOY has fallen from the parapet on the off-side of the Marple Aqueduct on the Peak Forest Canal and is critically injured.
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Published: 07 September 2015

Email: All be friends

In response to Gareth Haines, 'Why can't we all be friends'. Often I've waved and smiled to owners of boats with barely a space. on it's roof, a boat clearly in need of attention and yet the liveaboard owner has simply returned a look of disdain, ignorance personified.

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Published: 07 September 2015

Two repairs completed

TWO lock repairs have been completed by Canal & River Trust. with the navigations now open.

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Published: 07 September 2015

Trip boat trial at Trent Lock

A TRIP boat has started operating from Trent Lock on a trial basis, with permission given by Canal & River Trust for it to operate.

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Published: 07 September 2015

CaRT puts boat and crew in danger

WE WERE put in jeopardy by an absentee manager at Lock 14 on the Marple Flight (Peak Forest Canal) writes Hilary Rhodes.

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Published: 06 September 2015

Braunston sewage IS a serious health issue

MICK Fitzgibbons writes that the overflowing sewage at Braunston has 'all the makings of a serious public health issue'—it does not have the makings of one, it is one. The sewage is next to a drinking water tap! Writes David Davis.

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Published: 06 September 2015

The Braunston stink

WE ARE on our annual pilgrimage around the canals and have moored up in Braunston, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Now it's FOUR 'Narrow' lock failures!

IN ADDITION to the recent closures of three locks on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, another has now been closed.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Ed Helps on BWML

IT SEEMS that it is not only narrowboatworld that is concerned about Canal & River Trust's marina subsidiary, British Waterways Marinas Ltd (BWML makes a £877,642 loss!), writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 04 September 2015

Email: Not all friends

Great article that! (Why can't we all be friends?) by Gareth Haines.
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Published: 04 September 2015

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