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MANY boaters cruising the Staffs & Worcs Canal will have seen or called at Oxley Marine, and perhaps met its owner Orph Mable, whom we are very pleased to welcome as our new columnist. As as a boat yard owner he will undoubtedly have a different view point on waterway matters.

WITH wastage in mind it was in July 2006 that I was advised of three tractor type ride-on mowers, with trailers, being delivered to the West Midlands. Those mowers together with their trailers said to be worth around 17K each were subsequently found to be too wide for the towpaths!

PLANNING permission has been given for a 220 berths marina on the Witham at Lincoln, even though there is one a few miles away.

THE assets of eight canal side cottages are to be sold-off by British Waterways, most of them this month.

THE opening of Bingley Five Rise on The Leeds & Liverpool Canal to the public over last week-end caused unprecedented interest, as the 'unbelievable' photograph shows, with 7,276 people counted through the locks!

BRITISH Waterways propaganda department scored a major coup at the weekend with a front page picture and an article in the Sunday Telegraph Life section all about their need for volunteers for 61 locks 'from Bradford to Bath'.

FURTHER details have emerged regarding the delayed timetable for transition of British Waterways to the third sector as the Canal & River Trust, writes Allan Richards.

NOT satisfied with two fund raisers for Canal & River Trust, British Waterways have recruited yet another manager, but still with no real stated plan of action.

AS EXPECTED government have announced funding for the Canal & River Trust, writes Allan Richards. And as expected it's a stitch up!

IN RESPONSE to our article ‘The shape of things to come', South East Waterway Manager Jeff Whyatt, writes:

THE expectation is that an announcement will be made today (Tuesday) concerning the transition of British Waterways to Canal & River Trust, writes Allan Richards. Will it be salvation for our waterways or a government stitch up?

CONTINUOUS cruisers are now finding that poste restante services that are so vital to them are being lost.