Monday 17 June
Today's news from the web
- Rideau Canal workers’ plaque ceremony to finally proceed ottawacitizen.com
Kevin Dooley was ecstatic when Environment Minister Peter Kent announced last November that the workers who built the Rideau Canal in the early 19th century would finally be recognized as historically significant. Dooley was part of an ad hoc group that pushed for the recognition for six years, overcoming initial rejection by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, which declared that the work of the 5,000 to 6,000 Irish and French-Canadian labourers was “not unusual, nor was it remarkable.” Kent’s announcement was a welcome vindication and swept away years of frustration for Dooley and his fellow campaigners. But Wednesday, his frustration had returned because two proposed dates for the canal-side ceremony celebrating the workers’ designation had passed with no firm date in sight. ...
- Video: The moment Liverpool 'Duckmarine' tourist boat sank captured on camera telegraph.co.uk
Amateur footage has emerged of the moment when an amphibious tour bus sank in Liverpool's Albert Dock. 31 people had to be rescued or swim to the dockside. The video shows people jumping into the water out of the boat and swimming away from the vessel. The boat appears to sink rapidly. A number of people were taken to hospital after the Yellow Duckmarine vessel went under just before 4pm yesterday. A "multi-agency investigation" has been launched into the sinking - the second in three months....
- Hackney Mayor: 'We'll bill organisers for canal rave cleanup' hackneycitizen.co.uk
Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for the council’s clean-up operation following a massive rave on the Regent’s Canal earlier this month, Hackney Council says. Council leader Mayor Jules Pipe is keen to recoup nearly £2,000 in costs from the organisers of Canalival – the huge free party on the waterway. Billed as a “caravan of calamity”, Canalival was cancelled at eleventh hour via social media by the organisers, believed to be a group called Animal Control....
- Jogger: I flung myself into Regent's Canal to escape sex attacker standard.co.uk
A jogger has told how she leapt into London's Regent's Canal to escape a violent sex attacker. The terrified 23-year-old charity worker said she tried to fight off the man after he grabbed her and wrestled her to the ground next to the Regent’s Canal. She told how she screamed for help during the attack which happened at 9pm on April 16, but the man covered her mouth and pushed her to the ground. There were six attacks over five weeks in the area, which are being investigated by police....
- Gala celebrates 50 years of Stoke Bruerne’s Canal Museum northamptonchron.co.uk
Crowds flocked to the 8th annual Stoke Bruerne Canal Gala over the weekend. This year’s gala was extra special as it also helped to mark celebrations for the 50th anniversary since the opening of the Canal Museum in Stoke Bruerne....
- Repairs delayed on Aylesbury arm lock collapse bbc.co.uk
Work to repair a 170-year-old lock wall which collapsed on the Grand Union Canal in Buckinghamshire is taking longer to complete than expected. The wall of the Buckland lock gave way in March, leaving narrow boats in the Aylesbury basin unable to connect to the main waterway. About 20 boats were lifted out by crane and taken to Milton Keynes. It is understood repairs are unlikely to be completed in time for the August bank holiday, as expected....
- Stretch of Grantham canal to be reopened meltontimes.co.uk
A stretch of the Grantham Canal in the Vale of Belvoir is set to be reopened after more than 80 years. Two new locks will be installed at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir during late summer. Mike Stone, chairman of the Grantham Canal Society, said: “The canal goes through some beautiful countryside and we want people to be able to appreciate it and to use it for whatever interest they have, whether it’s angling, boating, walking or cycling.”...