News
WIN a portrait of your boat!
25 May 2013
HAVEN Knox-Johnston, the boat insurance specialists are offering owners the chance to win a painting of their boat by leading artist Michael Richardson.
Michael is a member of the Wapping Group of Artists, renowned for their dockland scenes, and has exhibited at many major galleries including The Royal Academy and his work is in public and private collections worldwide.
Kathryn launches new work at Crick Boat Show
24 May 2013.
Kathryn Webley works from her narrowboat 'the pod' and her new designs of handmade decorative glass are based on the seasons as seen from the cut. Kathryn says: "Unsurprisingly, in light of the recent weather, I have patterns based on ice and snow, but on an optimistic note spring is here, so look out for floral patterns of dandelion clocks and cow parsley."
River Medway boaters fined for navigation offences
22 May 2013.
125 River Medway boaters were issued with warning notices across the 2012 season, with 17 river users prosecuted for keeping an unregistered boat on the Kent waterway.
Voluntary sector best practice workshop
17 May 2013.
MORE than 70 delegates from canal societies, trusts and Inland Waterway Association branches are coming together tomorrow (Saturday, May 18) at Aston University in Birmingham for a day-long workshop organised by the IWA and Canal & River Trust.
Canal charity challenge to produce modern classic collection tin
17 May 2013.
CHARITY collection boxes can be design icons: just think of the Guide Dogs’ lifesize Labradors and the RNLI’s lifeboats. Now the Canal & River Trust has given product design students at Central St Martins the task of creating a brand new collection box for the charity that will capture the public’s imagination and generate funds to protect the nation’s much loved canals.
Can London’s waterways cope with increasing demand for moorings?
17 May 2013.
THE London Assembly is today (Friday) launching a new investigation into moorings on the capital’s waterways.
This new investigation, led by Jenny Jones AM, on behalf of the Assembly’s Environment Committee, will focus on the impact of increasing boat numbers on canal infrastructure, existing boaters and canalside properties.
‘Best Lock’ Award presented to Shepperton keeper
17 May 2013.
THE award for Best Lock on the River Thames 2012 was presented to lock keeper Steve Newman yesterday (Thursday, May 16) at a sunny Shepperton Lock.
Shepperton has scooped the award for the second year running, after hundreds of people voted in the Environment Agency’s 2012 Thames Waterways Awards.
National Audit Office report slams HS2 but remains silent on damage already done
16 May 2013.
TODAY’S report from the UK’s National Audit Office on the British High Speed rail line, known as HS2, is highly critical of the early programme preparation work undertaken, but does not cover the damage already done to economic regeneration projects blighted by the HS2 route.
Wakeboarding comes to Ship Canal
16 May 2013.
A NORTHERN canal is to become a mecca for wakeboarding – a mixture of water skiing and snowboarding.
Finding a way forward at Foxton
16 May 2013.
BILLED as one of the most important for many years, the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust’s AGM on May 23 will look at the future of the restoration project.
Current Issue: June 2013
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