TPT August 2025

THE FORTH & CLYDE canal

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August 23, 2025

SOMETHING remarkable has been quietly unfolding north of the border, and the vital player at its centre? The Forth & Clyde Canal. Once a throbbing artery of trade and profit before its decline and closure in 1963, it is once again helping to shape the future of Glasgow. Helen Gazeley reports… The Forth & Clyde is…
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BOATERS BENEFIT from docks dredging programme

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August 6, 2025

THE Canal & River Trust has carried out dredging at Gloucester Docks as part of its vital work to manage Britain’s most inland port. The charity has spent £3 million in the last three years on dredging the docks to allow boats and tall vessels to freely navigate and moor in the heart of Gloucester,…
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MAJOR REPAIRS complete and bridge reopens

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August 5, 2025

The Canal & River Trust, working in partnership with Sandwell Council, has reopened the 129-year-old Wrights Bridge after extensive repairs. Located on the Dudley No. 2 Canal, the bridge connects local people to the Old Hill railway station and has been closed for several years due to safety concerns about the bridge deck and its…
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£80K BILL after latest historic canal bridge vehicle strike

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August 4, 2025

DRIVERS have been urged to take care after the bridge located on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal between Dimmingsdale Lock and Wightwick Lock was stuck by a vehicle for the fifth time in 14 years. Lucy Wood reports… The Canal & River Trust is carrying out urgent repair work, estimated to cost £80,000, to the…
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PLEA for volunteers

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August 2, 2025

VOLUNTEER lock keepers are needed to help keep a stretch of the UK’s longest canal open this year. People are being urged to donate a day a week to operate the Gargrave stretch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, located on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Lock keepers are ‘the face of the waterways,’…
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NO PROSECUTION NEWS as canal reopens

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August 1, 2025

BOATERS are finally using the closed section of the Walsall Canal, 11 months after it was poisoned with deadly chemicals – but there is still no indication of any prosecutions. Remedial work has cost more than £500,000, involving dredging to remove some of the 4000 litres of zinc cyanide solution which leaked from Anochrome Ltd,…
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OVERLY COMPLEX PROCESSES could halt future restoration work

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July 31, 2025

CANAL restoration charities have slammed the Canal & River Trust after it revealed a new way of working with organisations that repair and renovate waterways. CRT says it will not support new projects at the expense of navigations it already maintains and will charge charities who do work on its property. But the Wendover Canal…
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