Wednesday 17 June

Today's news from the web

New Patrol Boats Named After London's Bridges londonist.com

The Port of London Authority has commissioned a £2 million fleet of five launches to replace seven older vessels. ...
Canals and climate change waterscape.com

The Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has publishedits latest report showing how inland waterways can assist in lessening and adapting to the effects of climate change. ...
New website for Canal Trust waterscape.com

The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust has launched a new website. ...

Driver swims to safety as lorry ends up in canal northantset.co.uk

Emergency services have been called to a major rescue mission after a lorry ended up in a canal in Northampton. ...
Wilts & Berks bridge almost complete thisiswiltshire.co.uk

A NEW canal bridge in Shrivenham is nearing completion after eight years of hard graft. ...
New Broads moorings edp24.co.uk

Flood defence work between the sugar beet factory and village staithe at Cantley, near Acle, is set to increase the number of moorings and create a new slipway. ...
BW pleads guilty in Severn diver death case thisisgloucestershire.co.uk

Massive fines could be handed out to two companies after they admitted failings in the run up to a diver's death at a lock near Tewkesbury. ...

Meet the Dursley man transforming Stroud's canals gazetteseries.co.uk

A DURSLEY civil engineer is looking forward to project managing the Stroud Waterway canal regeneration project and says he is proud to work on a project that will benefit the whole of the district. ...
Canal Street, Manchester - proposed improvements to Lock 86 penninewaterways.co.uk

Bw has responded to criticisms by saying that there was always an intention to make improvements to Lock 86 to make it safer to operate when the only access is by boat. ...
New moorings will open at Gloucester Quays next week. thisisgloucestershire.co.uk

New moorings will be opened next week to allow boat owners to make the most of the new Gloucester Quays developments. ...
Falkirk's canal opens gates to bold new vision falkirkherald.co.uk

The development would see the creation of houses, flats and penthouses, revamped businesses and commercial areas, a marina complex and water space, and mooring facilities along the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal. ...
OBE for IWA's John Fletcher penninewaterways.co.uk

Tireless north-west canals campaigner John Fletcher has been awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. ...
Exclusive preview of how Worcester's riverside may look berrowsjournal.co.uk

This image gives an exclusive preview of what Worcester’s waterfront will look like after the completion of an £800,000 regeneration project. ...

Skyscrapers for bats on the L&L news.bbc.co.uk

A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work? ...
New moorings and a supermarket come to Gloucester Docks waterscape.com

Next Wednesday sees the opening of the new Sainsbury’s store on the Llantony side of the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal. British Waterways has chosen the same morning to celebrate the opening of two new visitor moorings to help boaters get the most out of the new facilities. ...

Three Mills Lock opens to traffic nce.co.uk

The Three Mills Lock - also known as Prescott Lock - has opened to traffic, the first new lock to be built in London for more than 20 years. ...
Barges to become wharf homes wharf.co.uk

A group of five historic barges are to be converted into restaurants and residential units for the Docklands area. ...
Cyclist falls into lock thisisbath.co.uk

A 40-year-old cyclist had a lucky escape after falling from a canal lock at Pulteney Road in Bath. ...
Canalside skyscraper in Stroud stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk

Construction work for a £20million 10-storey canalside landmark tower is expected to start in the heart of Stroud this year. ...
Approval for homes at canalside site in Smethwick birminghampost.net

A £42 million scheme to regenerate a canalside site in Smethwick has secured planning consent for a project which will bring 193 new homes to the town’s industrial heartland. Regeneration partnership PxP West Midlands has received outline planning permission for Brindley Village II, an 11-acre site next to the five-year-old Brindley Village I development in the area north of the Birmingham Mainline canal. ...

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