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AT A meeting in Wigan over the week-end it was discovered that unless there is a deluge, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will close on 1st August—the start of the major summer holidays.

BOATERS on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are worried that instead of the Three Rise flights being operated by official lock keepers, litter pickers are being used.

THOUGH the Environment Agency gave the impression that the Giant Hogweed found by the Grand Union Canal at Linslade was a remote case, this is not so.

IT IS not only normal boaters who are suffering from British Waterways' lack of maintenance, its commercial customers too are being hit.

A POISONOUS plant that was  thought to have been eliminated from the country's waterways has been discovered in the Grand Union Canal.

IN A couple of sentences, the new waterways minister put British Waterways in its place, writes Allan Richards.

TO BE FAIR, with all the reports of British Waterways neglect of the waterways infrastructure, and all the images of the results of such neglect on narrowboatworld's 'State of the waterways' gallery, it is good to be able to reported some good news for a change.

IN ADDITION to the stoppages on Caen Hill and the Birmingham & Fazeley, more are coming thick and fast—lack of maintenance a primary cause.

THIS morning (Monday) seven Star Class historic working boats are loading up at Paddington Basin with 100 tons of gravel that needs to be transported up the Grand Union Canal to Atherstone just north of Birmingham, about 120 miles.

IT WAS six years ago that Crown Narrowboats built Rhapsody in Blue for American owners Sharon and Dan, who spend the summers on our waterways, part of this year attempting Standedge Tunnel—here's Sharon's story:

HOT on the heels of the closure of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, comes news that the Weaver too is closed by a problem at Saltersford Lock.

THE Birmingham & Fazeley Canal was closed on Friday (2nd July) with the long pound above Minworth Flight very low and unnavigable, after being breached.