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Helping around 50 boats a day make their journey along a river is no small task, and every day is different working on the locks along the Trent. Lock-keepers play a crucial role in maintaining the ...

The number of seasonal lock keepers on the River Thames has been slashed by over half. The Environment Agency (EA) are bringing in ten extra members of staff to man the locks in Oxfordshire and ...

Towering to a height of almost 20ft on Yorkshire’s western reaches, not only is Tuel Lane Lock Britain’s deepest, it is an engineering marvel that acts as a gateway to some of the region’s finest ...

A leading union has spoken of its "shock" after claiming to have discovered plans for a "substantial" cut in the number of lock and weir keepers along the River Thames. The GMB said the Environment ...

For the first weekend of "Illuminate the Lock" artist Aaron Dysart used data from 47 years of lock-keeper logbooks to program a light show. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our ...