Monday 12 May

Today's news from the web

Visitors up at Falkirk Wheel waterscape.com

The Falkirk Wheel attracted over 500,000 visitors in 2007, a 17.5% increase on 2006, according to VisitScotland's Scottish Visitor Attraction Monitor, announced today, Friday, 9 May 2008. ...

Stroud council asks Huddersfield restorers for advice thisisgloucestershire.co.uk

Over the past couple of months Stroud District Council has been working behind the scenes to evaluate the future of the Cotswold Canals project....
BW launches new eco-friendly facilities in Lincoln waterscape.com

British Waterways is officially launching a recently completed project in Lincoln that aims to improve visitor access and provide state of the art, environmentally friendly customer service facilities. ...
A boat bothered by safety rules shstar.co.uk

It WAS a case of health and safety gone mad when “bin day” took on a whole new meaning for volunteers from the Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society. ...

Tug boat event at Black Country Living Museum - Birmingham Mail birminghammail.net

A COLOURFUL cavalcade of historic working canal boats brought thousands of waterways enthusiasts flooding to the Black Country Living Museum. ...
Burnley Canal To Get £27,000 Upgrade burnleycitizen.co.uk

Another stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal is to be given a new lease of life. Waterways chiefs have announced that the canal through Hapton will benefit from a partnership project promising major improvements to the tow-path and embankments. ...
Campaign to stop wildlife drowning thestar.co.uk

A CAMPAIGN to prevent animals from drowning in canals near Doncaster has resulted in special measures to help save them from a watery grave. ...
Canal footbridge collapses lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

A BRIDGE used as a popular link between a Burnley estate and the town centre has been sealed off after part of it collapsed. ...
Ugly boats banned in Maidenhead, Thames maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk

The threat of legal action looms for the owners of ugly boats which the Royal Borough wants removed from Maidenhead Riverside. ...

Tring Canal Festival gets the go-ahead bucksherald.co.uk

The Wendover Arm Trust has announced the Tring Canal Festival will be going ahead this year, thanks to the support of the Icknield Way land owners. ...
Puzzle after Jolly Anglers is still closed getreading.co.uk

Confusion surrounds a Reading canal-side pub due to reopen after being closed for weeks. ...

Live ammo found in canal clean-up: expressandstar.com

Volunteers cleaning up a canal were amazed when among the shopping trolleys and furniture they fished out was 40 rounds of live ammunition. ...
Survey boat saves fuel on canal news.bbc.co.uk

A survey vessel owned by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has used the Caledonian Canal to save on fuel, time and carbon emmissions. ...
Canal work to save animals yorkshirepost.co.uk

A stretch of canal is being improved to prevent animals – mainly deer – from drowning. ...
Canalside cleanup hailed as a success yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

A clean-up team was drafted in after a Leeds riverside beauty spot was turned into a grotspot. ...

Hapton embankment works underway waterscape.com

Visitors to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Hapton will benefit from a partnership project that will add the final touches to a major towpath and embankment scheme. ...
Cricklade Country Way Still On Track wiltsglosstandard.co.uk

An AMBITIOUS plan to reopen a canal, railway line and cycle path and create a country park between Cricklade and Swindon is still on track. ...
Ambitious Scheme To Replace Canalside Eyesore thisischeshire.co.uk

An award-winning company wants to demolish run-down factory premises by the Bridgewater Canal and replace it with an ambitious mixed use scheme that would include 194 flats and maisonettes. ...
Canal festival to be Wet Wet Wet? clydebankpost.co.uk

Ambitious plans for a Forth & Clyde Canal festival are under way and Clydebank’s own Wet Wet Wet are top of the list for potential headliners. ...

Boost for Lancaster Canal towpath garstangcourier.co.uk

Work has begun on a £100,000 spruce-up of the canal towpath at Garstang. The move follows British Waterways' decision to earmark Garstang as a special 2008 visitor destination. ...

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