If you think that pottering along a UK canal in a sedate narrow boat is boring, think again, this is one of the best ways to ...

SOPHIE:They're canal boats. WILLIAM WHISKERSON ... After viewing the clip, ask pupils to find Worcester on a map of the UK. They could go on to look at online maps of the Worcester area.

Large parts of the canal are now just mud, after the water drained away More than 20 canal boats have been left stranded after a stretch of waterway in West Yorkshire ran dry due to a faulty lock ...

A canal project nearing completion is set to make history and usher in a new era of economic opportunities for Europe.

In Rolt’s day, the house would have been home to a lock-keeper in the employment of the Oxford Canal Company, who, as well as ...

As we glide silently up Amsterdam's busy waterways on an unseasonably warm autumn morning, boat company owner Rik Kooij, 38, admits that "canal water runs in my veins". Ever since his mechanically ...

In the last boater census, conducted in 2022 by the Canal and River Trust (CRT), a charity, there were about 35,000 boats on canals in England and Wales, up by a third in the past two decades.

A 50ft (15m) canal boat has been stolen from its private mooring in Milton Keynes. Gyrafalcon was taken some time between ...

Colin Legge, 41, has lived in a canal boat since 2014 and says the fees are “too expensive” and could be “the end of London’s boaters”. “It’s a way of monetising the waterways but we ...

But those who live on London’s canals permanently say the fees – which come to an annual equivalent of £12,775 a year – are ...

Glandŵr Cymru, the Canal & River Trust in Wales, has completed a six-week dredging programme on the Monmouthshire & Brecon ...