Tuesday 2 June

Consultation on Glos & Sharpness bridges

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Thursday 28 May

Today's news from the web

• Waterways holidays in Britain: From canoeing in Scotland to narrowboating in the Pennines independent.co.uk
  

  There are many adventures to be had on canals and rivers,writes Paul Miles. Our television screens have been awash with programmes about travelling along canals of late, a trend kick-started by Barging Round Britain with John Sergeant earlier in the year and climaxing with BBC4's much-talked-about, two-hour "slow television" narrowboat cruise, The Canal. Britain has more than 2,000 miles of navigable inland waterways; once a cutting-edge transport network of the Industrial Revolution, today these liquid highways offer a route to relaxation....

Monday 25 May

Today's news from the web

• New equipment donated to Nuneaton canal trips charity nuneaton-news.co.uk
  

  WorkSafe Training Systems has presented an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to the Hargreaves Narrowboat Trust. Set up as part of former Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth's, Tom Hargreaves, annual appeal, it has provided groups of up to 12 people with trips on the canal network around Nuneaton for more than 20 years....

Thursday 21 May

Today's news from the web

• 20 narrowboats craned into Crick Marina in Northamptonshire as part of Crick Boat Show northampton-news-hp.co.uk
  

  This week, 20 narrowboats, weighing up to 35 tonnes, are being craned into Crick Marina, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, as part of preparations for the 16th Crick Boat Show & Waterways Festival, May 23-25....

Tuesday 19 May

Today's news from the web

• Former Swindon Council leader to chair Wilts & Berks Canal Trust wiltshiretimes.co.uk
  

  Former Swindon Council leader Rod Bluh is being appointed as chairman of the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust....

Sunday 17 May

Today's news from the web

• What you need to know about buying a canal boat and living on it | This is Money thisismoney.co.uk
  

  http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-3084373/Living-canal-boat-cost-fraction-bricks-mortar-s-not-plain-sailing.html...

Tuesday 12 May

Today's news from the web

• England's water voles in desperate decline, says CRT theguardian.com
  

  English waterways could lose one of their most charismatic and once widespread residents as water voles succumb to the invasive American mink, records released by the Canal and River Trust show. Between 1970 and 1999, water voles were found on 269 of the 2,000 miles of waterways managed by the trust. But since the turn of the century, their range dropped by almost 50% to 141 miles....

Tuesday 5 May

Today's news from the web

• Wilts & Berks Canal Trust to restore derelict Studley Grange stretch bbc.co.uk
  

  A derelict stretch of Wiltshire canal which was filled in and abandoned last century is to be restored. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust says it has raised £575,000 in grants to breathe life back into the canal at Studley Grange....

• Canals take the strain of London's housing crisis theguardian.com
  

  The growth in the number of people living on canals is putting pressure on London’s waterways, as more people choose to buy or rent boats in response to rising property prices. In hotspots such as Hackney in east London boat numbers have risen by 85% in the past year alone. Overall in London there has been a 36% rise in the past five years. There were 2,175 boats in 2007 and it was less common for owners to live on them all year. There are now more than 3,000 and interest is increasing, with one popular Facebook group, London Boaters, receiving almost daily requests for information from people curious about buying or renting boats....

• Thrills and spills at two miles an hour on board a narrowboat dailymail.co.uk
  

  We had three nights on Kite and managed to travel from Llanfoist, near Abergavenny, to Talybont-on-Usk — a round trip of 30 miles. It was terrific fun and action-packed, even at 1-2mph. So, I’m not surprised BBC4 is doing a documentary next Tuesday on canal boating....

Friday 24 April

Today's news from the web

• Thieves stealing stone from Mirfield could be making getaway - by canal boat examiner.co.uk
  

  Stone thieves plaguing Mirfield could be making their getaway – by canal boat. The getaway barge theory was floated after a thief pushing stone in a supermarket trolley was chased onto the canalside. The thief escaped but police found a haul of stone stacked up alongside the Calder and Hebble Canal off Station Road, near the Lidl store....

• Stranded puffin rescued from Grand Union Canal at Brentford getwestlondon.co.uk
  

  "I'm a bit besotted with puffins and have puffin wind chimes on the boat but it was very bizarre to see one on the Grand Union. We're all interested to know how on earth a coastal bird could end up so far from home."...

Thursday 23 April

Today's news from the web

• Mikron Theatre Company embark on nationwide canal tour yorkshirelife.co.uk
  

  A crew of four actor-musicians set sail this month on board Tyseley a theatre company’s vintage narrow boat, to tour the country via inland waterways. They will learn to steer the 72ft vessel, navigate canals and rivers and operate locks, swapping plush theatres and dressing rooms for village greens and beer gardens. ...

Friday 17 April

Today's news from the web

• Bomb disposal scrambled after dummy wearing balaclava spotted on boat with fake missile launcher dailymail.co.uk
  

  A full-scale terror alert was sparked this week after a dummy wearing a balaclava was spotted on a boat sailing down the Thames with a fake missile launcher on its roof. Thames Valley Police called an Army bomb disposal team after a startled passer-by reported the 4ft long guided missile in a rocket launcher on top of the barge in Reading. Perched next to the fake warhead were the head and shoulders of a convincing-looking man, his eyes staring grimly from holes cut in a balaclava shrouding his face....

• Ashton Canal turns into world's biggest bubble bath after blaze dailymail.co.uk
  

  A Manchester canal was turned into a giant bubble bath after fire crews tackling a nearby chemical plant blaze saw their water mix with a detergent creating a six foot wall of foam. The Ashton Canal was filled with heavy suds which appeared after a fire at an industrial unit occupied by a drug development company. It is believed that the water used by firefighters to dampen down the flames mixed with the detergent being stored in the burning buildings....

Friday 10 April

Today's news from the web

• Narrowboat 'U-boat captain' facing jail for VAT fraud dailymail.co.uk
  

  A self-styled U-boat captain who blew the proceeds of a £1million VAT fraud on luxury hotels, jets and fast cars while living on benefits is facing jail. Captain Birdseye lookalike Richard Williams, who lived on a narrowboat converted to resemble a German submarine, lied that he was selling specially-adapted beds to people with disabilities then claimed back the tax he had supposedly paid......

Tuesday 7 April

Today's news from the web

• Narrowboat carries coffin of Stoke Bruerne lock keeper’s daughter to her funeral northamptonchron.co.uk
  

  Doris Osborne was born in Reading in 1928 on board the narrowboat ‘Emma’, to Jack and Emma James. Her family worked on boats all their lives and her father, Jack James, became the lock keeper at Stoke Bruerne in 1962 and founded the canal museum there. After she passed away, aged 86, on Mother’s Day, her family arranged for her coffin to be carried by narrowboat through the Blisworth Tunnel to be received at Stoke Bruerne....

• Narrowboat couple who met at Llangollen wharf get married in town leaderlive.co.uk
  

  A couple of narrowboat enthusiasts who met on the canal in Llangollen decided to return to the town to get married. Sue and Ian Goodwin, who live on their narrowboat, met while moored in the town a couple of years ago, fell in love and decided to get married. And their fairytale waterways story was complete last Saturday, when they were married at St Collen’s Church....

Wednesday 1 April

Today's news from the web

• Mowbray bridges in ten-year ‘golden arches’ sponsorship deal meltonwaterways.org.uk
  
  The Melton & Oakham Navigation Society has accepted a sponsorship deal with fast food giant McDonald’s, worth £10,000 a year. 
  
  
  In return for the money, one of the navigation's famous double-arched bridges will be painted gold for the period, the waterway will be renamed The McDonald's Navigation, and the first mile from Syston will be called 'The Happy Mile'. 
  
  
  To celebrate the deal, the Melton Mowbray branch of McDonald’s will also offer a Stilton cheeseburger later this year. 
  
  
  MOWS accepts it won’t have the authority to change the name legally. However, since neither the Environment Agency nor the Canal & River Trust have shown any interest in restoring navigation, the society hopes that others will also use the name, in the hope that it will encourage other companies to sponsor waterways. 
  
  
  In announcing the news, MNS chairman Mick Clowes quipped “I’m lovin’ it!” 
  
  
  It is a small start. The McDonald’s Navigation is, after all, yet to be restored. But this landmark agreement could perhaps encourage other large companies to sponsor waterways. With the HSBC bank announcing a move to Birmingham, what about ‘The HSBC Birmingham Canal Navigations’, for example? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Golden sponsorship opportunity: The twin arches of the Mowbray Navigation.
  ...

Friday 20 March

Today's news from the web

• Royal tour is jewel in the crown of W&B canal auction lots thisiswiltshire.co.uk
  

  Prince Charles and Camilla have donated a Highgrove garden tour for next week's Wilts & Berks Canal Trust auction. The event next Thursday, March 26 at the Angel Hotel, Chippenham, will raise money for the restoration of the canal near Chippenham. The jewel in the lots crown is a two hour guided tour of the Prince's gardens in Gloucestershire followed by a champagne tea for two in the Orchard Restaurant, while being entertained by the resident pianist...

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