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 ...

LOCK keepers in Oxfordshire have won a "minor victory" after their managers scrapped ridiculous plans to stop them using their own fire extinguishers and ladders. Previously the Environment Agency (EA ...

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 ...

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A civil servant with a strong sense of duty, Sylvian Godfroy literally lives for his work. Mr Godfroy is a lock keeper on the Canal du Midi which runs through Toulouse. Originally he wanted to be a ...