http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latest.cgi News, pictures and comments from Britain's best-selling waterway magazine. http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1864 Teignbridge District Council has now sub-leased the land to the Stover Canal Trust, paving the way for full restoration plans to be drawn up. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:50:23 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1863 A revamped waterway and a new bridge are to form part of a 4.4m boost to the New Islington area of Manchester. Boaters will be able to moor in the area for the first time and a bridge and new paths and canal walkways will connect it to the neighbouring areas of Ancoats and Manchester city centre. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:30:57 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1862 A set of massive sea gates is being installed at Sharpness Docks to replace the original steel guardians which have given safe passage to craft and held back the might of the sea for over 50 years. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:18:52 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1861 A Buckinghamshire boater will have to pay out over 4,600 after being prosecuted for failing to navigate a boat at a safe speed and without due care and caution along the River Thames. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:15:17 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1860 A star of stage and screen is hoping to gather a fleet of house boat owners to help sink an organisation which she claims is ruling the river. Susan Penhaligon, who moors her floating home on the River Thames, at Brentford, has labelled the Port of London Authority (PLA) bully boys for trying to force increased mooring fees amounting to thousands of pounds on boat owners across the borough and beyond. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:12:00 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1859 The Port of London Authority (PLA) says that trade through the Port of London in 2009 fell by 14% to 45 million tonnes, the lowest level since 1992. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:08:58 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1858 British Waterways is reassuring boaters, event organisers and waterside businesses that it is taking action to keep up water levels in local canals to make up for the loss of the feed from Chasewater. Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:38:23 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1857 As well as what they hope will be the greenest housing estate in the borough, developers also want to re-open a half-mile section of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:16:11 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1856 English Heritage has been criticised over its attitude to the ships graveyard in Gloucestershire known as the Purton Hulks. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:15:21 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1855 A TEAM of volunteers will take to the towpath for an ambitious clean-up project. They will tackle the 14-mile stretch of the Rochdale Canal from Walsden, Todmorden, to Sowerby Bridge, as part of the Stop Contamination Of Our Paths (SCOOP) campaign. Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:14:35 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1854 A multi-million pound scheme to create a marina for canal boats near Rowde has been granted permission by Wiltshire Council. Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:55:48 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1853 The Ulverston Canal could be revitalised by a company set up specifically to maintain the redundant waterway. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:59:03 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1852 A pleasure boat skipper has been jailed for an unforgivable error that resulted in a partygoer drowning in the Thames. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:32:47 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1851 The first section of a 4.5 mile cycleway on a towpath near Worcester is about to open for business. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:15:25 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1850 Plans for a 248-berth marina at Lower Foxhangers Farm near Rowde have been recommended for approval. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:59:40 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1849 Waterways staff are well used to plucking kebab cartons and burger wrappers from canals...but they were baffled when they were called to retrieve a whole takeaway trailer from the water. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:09:31 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1848 Rowdy and abusive narrowboat owners across the county will be targeted by council control teams. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:32:40 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1847 Work has begun on a scheme to build a 2 million boating marina in the middle of Northampton. Experts from the Environment Agency moved on to Becket's Park this week to remove a number of rotten and dangerous trees close to the park's former boating lake. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:34:22 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1846 Littleborough Civic Trust has raised concerns that the Rochdale Canal towpath is to be a hard surface. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:33:34 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1845 Canal wharves in Leeds would be earmarked for industrial use to protect them from housing developments if city council proposals get the go-ahead. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:44 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1844 Rower Andrew Jones is lucky to be alive after a 124ft catamaran crashed into his old-fashioned wooden cutter boat on the river Thames. Mr Jones, from Carshalton, was training for a 480-mile London-to-Paris charity rowing challenge, when a catamaran ferry chopped his boat in half leaving him swimming for his life near the London Eye. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:28:27 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1843 The entire Standedge Tunnel fleet took off on a journey to Liverpool last week! The nine-year old vessels will undergo repairs and maintenance, including some plating work to the hulls. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:05:47 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1842 A canal boat owner has been given an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) for holding loud parties in Nottingham. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:44:55 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1841 All boaters booking in for the 2010 Inland Waterways Festival at Beale Park will - for the first time - be offered two months free breakdown cover by River Canal Rescue (RCR). Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:03:45 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1840 An ambitious project to build a new section of canal in Melksham could bring a caf culture to the town and millions of pounds in revenue. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:39:46 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1839 Skipton town centre leaders have sought to reassure the boating community after claims that young criminals were turning the Leeds-Liverpool Canal into a no go area. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:37:55 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1838 The future of the annual Brownhills Canal Festival is in the balance because of essential repairs to the Chasewater Reservoir. It follows news yesterday that two other canal festivals in the Black Country which attract thousands of people have been called off due to the vital work. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:30:52 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1837 A family of houseboat owners are awaiting the outcome of a last-ditch appeal to stave off eviction from the River Thames in Kingston. Mary Graham, 57, and her husband Hilary, 59, who were instrumental in saving a drowning womans life last month, made an official appeal to the planning inspector on Tuesday. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:28:38 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1836 A GRANDFATHER has spoken of his distress after his boat was destroyed in a fire on the River Nene this week. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:28:07 GMT http://www.waterwaysworld.com/latestpost.cgi?post=1835 A charity led by the Prince of Wales has stepped in to try and save the UK's last working Victorian pottery from closure. For more than 100 years artisans have been turning out sought-after Burleigh earthenware from the kilns of Middleport. But like other potteries in North Staffordshire, which was once the centre of the world's ceramic industry, it has been hit by the economic downturn and competition from overseas. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:54:28 GMT