'Just as one scheme starts, another ends

摘要

For a change, we're looking at not one but two canal restoration projects this time - and they couldn't really be any more different from each other. The Droitwich restoration, after many years of slow progress, hard work by volunteers and periodic setbacks, is at last going full speed ahead. Funding has been secured, all the planning is complete, contractors have been cracking on with the engineering work and reopening is expected next year.