costalot

I can only report what I saw. The boat ran aground just north of Bull's Bridge. It was stuck hard on mud and the crew needed to use their boat pole at the bow to push the boat off.

If this is the same development as a year ago then it's upstream of the Arm and no where near the old warehouse at the end of the arm!

We came up Ryders Green 3 weeks ago grinding over a few shopping trolleys in the bottom pound. There was a CRT working boat ahead and the crew were more than annoyed about the condition of the flight telling us they had cleaned it in May. I walked 2km up the Walsall from Ocker Hill and came upon a boat that had run aground. The crew decided they couldn't continue and reversed before winding and going back to the Tame.

Would CRT be able to add all the legal expenses to their costs in disposing of the lightship?

As I read it there is a letter from Braemar dated 20 Sep 16 stating that they took action on behalf of CRT the previous day acting for CRT enforcing a High Court Warrant. No evidence to date where CRT have claimed they had a High Court Warrant. It might well be that the writer of the letter got it wrong. However if he didn't get it wrong and there is a warrant, then Braemar, as part of their due diligence, should have sighted the warrant prior to taking any action. It's equally possible that CRT's legal advice was no High Court Warrant was necessary. I suspect it's the latter, and the letter writer from Braemar made an assumption about a High Court Warrant or simply got their terminology wrong.