Thames lock

Remember landing?

It always worries me that, bit-by-bit, our public rights can be eroded away simply because we don’t know when – or how – to protect them.

Would more lock-keepers have made a difference?

The terrible flooding, which has followed days of heavy rain, has caused tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to home and businesses in our area and there has much coverage elsewhere in this newspaper about the impact on the lives of local residents.

Lock keeper cost cuts in the spotlight

I was rather encouraged to see that a London MP had put down an Early Day Motion to bring the vexed question of the future of resident lock keepers on the non-tidal Thames into the public spotlight.