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Email: Ill and infirm

Catching up on your stories, those about the treatment of ill and infirm people by Canal & River Trust as told by your correspondents I found most disgusting.

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Published: 10 November 2014

Walk on the Wild Side

KENT doesn't readily spring to mind for inland boating so the Medway is perhaps not given much thought by most canal users, writes Alan Tilbury.

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Published: 08 November 2014

Live grenade in Regent's Canal

THE clean-up of the Regent's Canal has unearth some peculiar objects that have been dumped in the water, but a live grenade beats them all.

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Published: 07 November 2014

The real explanation

IN THE article concerning the Cotswold Canals (Cotswold Canals development) you ask what director speak 'contemporary design responds very much to its place' means, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 07 November 2014

What's in a name

I HAVE always wondered why the 'old guard' ejected from British Waterways chose a new name like CaRT, when there were much better and much more meaningful names available, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.

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Published: 06 November 2014

Cotswold Canals development

HOUSE builders on the derelict Cotswold Canals are realising the advantage of a restored waterway in boosting prices, and now there is a plan being put forward to build on waste ground by the side of the Cotswold Canals in Stroud.

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Published: 06 November 2014

Young women take up heritage skills

TWO Lancashire lasses have signed-up to a new national canal heritage course aimed at training a new generation in traditional canal maintenance skills.

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Published: 06 November 2014

Email: Should be safe

Harriet Bland should be safe by the NIA, (Where are we safe?). Maybe just put up with a little rowdiness.

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Published: 06 November 2014

Should be fined

THOUGH my partner and I have been boating now for six years I did not know of your site until I was linked to it from BBC Somerset, writes Justin Holloway.

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Published: 05 November 2014

Email: Where are we safe?

I realise of course that the attacks on the towpaths are nothing compared to the attacks these days elsewhere away from the canals, but I find them very worrying.

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Published: 05 November 2014

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