It's an unsettling time for lock keepers along the Thames, with the Environment Agency considering selling off or leasing their river-side cottages in a cost-saving measure. What effect would an ...

A LOCK-KEEPER who could lose his job later this year has been praised for saving two people from flood waters in recent weeks. On Saturday Richard Hawkins, 26, from Abingdon, helped stop a boat from ...

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Boaters and river users have reacted angrily to plans to freeze the recruitment of residential lock keepers on the Thames amid fears over safety and flooding. The Environment Agency (EA) has put ...