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THE Huddersfield Narrow Canal is still closed, with boaters stranded after a lock gate failed on Thursday.

I HAVE often been in trouble putting the blame where it lies with people coming to grief in the waterways, and my objecting to the resulting knee-jerk reactions.

WITH waterway magazine sales continuing to plummet, coupled with the demise of advertisers one is now publishing a free edition, in an attempt to attract more advertising.

FUNDING for the restoration of the four miles of canal between Stonehouse and Saul Junction is not forthcoming, with the  Heritage Lottery Fund application being rejected.

So, although categorically promised by British Waterways that it would never be allowed to re-occur, the British Waterways bollards scenario rears it's ugly head yet again following the knee jerk reaction of H&S, writes Graham Phillips.

EVEN the local MP has complained about the high fares on the trip boat taking passengers between Limehouse to the Olympic Park during the games.

THE death of a boater at Salterforth Wharf on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was caused by carbon monoxide fumes an inquest has heard.

SUCH was the furore caused by the narrowboatworld warnings of the dangers of the RSJ  installed at neck height on Falling Sands Lock that it is to be removed.

BRITISH Waterways has been the guardian of our canal heritage for the past 60 years. Latterly it has insisted that it has the responsibility to keep structures as close as possible to the state in which they were first built, writes Mike Stone.

BRITISH Waterways Chief Executive, Robin Evans, has given some more surprising statistics, this time to the Inquiry in the House of Lords on the transfer orders to take British Waterways into a charity.

BRITISH Waterways has accepted partial liability for an accident that left a girl with both legs crushed, and will pay £500,000 towards compensation and costs, writes Allan Richards.

ROD Fox's picture of the new 'safety' rails at Falling Sands Lock only tells part of the story, writes David Hymers.