IT WAS over 40 years ago that the dry dock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Burnley was last used, but it is now back in business.
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I THINK Mick Fitzgibbons (in 'An Epic Conundrum') has flagged up a very good point indeed, writes Suzanne McLeod.
THERE are strong objections to boat traders who have obtained a licence to sell limited snacks and drinks to passing walkers and cyclists but now change their narrowboat to a broad beam and turned it into a full blown café even selling alcohol.
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Would someone please explain to me why, having just paid £948 (after prompt payment discount) to navigate our canal system, I have just passed 4.2 miles of silky smooth asphalt being laid on the towpath from Selly Oak to Kings Norton Junction on the Birmingham & Worcester Canal?
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The latest tenant for the new Broadwalk development at Mercia Marina is a beauty therapist Anna Bovey who will open her new salon at the premises.
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THE Canal & River Trust has announced £3m additional investment in its waterways, with most of it on dredging.
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IT IS a conundrum of epic proportions that will ultimately decide the outcome for the inland waterways. The Trust has finally awakened, if only to acknowledge the precipice that the age profile of the boat owning population holds for the future of the inland waterways, writes Mick Fitzgibbons.
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WE WERE recently visited by the head of CaRT London Office after I had tweeted the National Volunteer Coordinator that CaRT did not seem interested to understand the Community Boaters' issues (we are affiliated to NCBA) and she put him in touch, writes Tony Bower.
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FOLLOWING its second failure to recruit ‘Friends' in anything like meaningful numbers (Chugging companies blamed again), Canal and River Trust (CaRT) is now recruiting a ‘Supporter Engagement Manager' to bolster its Individual Giving Team, writes Allan Richards.
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