17th July 2015
New Chair for waterways authority
The Canal & River Trust is to have a new Chairman, as Tony Hales prepares to step down after a decade heading the organisation responsible for most of the waterways in Britain.
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17th July 2015
Feel better – visit a canal
We’ve always known that the waterways are good for you – and now it’s official (well, sort of). A survey by the government body Natural England has found that the millions who regularly visit canals…
9th July 2015
IWA puts the waterways case to new MPs
Conservative MP Michael Fabricant (left) and Inland Waterways Association Chairman Les Etheridge are pictured indicating the position on the map of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals restoration project – a scheme which Mr Fabricant has…
2nd July 2015
Leaks close Lancaster Canal for a month
Three holes that developed in the bed of the Lancaster Canal have forced the canal to close for four weeks of repair work.
26th June 2015
Towpath upgrade celebrated
Celebrations were had at the Rufford Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal to recognise the recent towpath upgrade
23rd June 2015
Lock gear: CRT asks the boaters
The Canal & River Trust are asking boaters for feedback on a national project devised to make locks safer for boaters.
22nd June 2015
Ribble Link warning
Boaters are being warned of the dangers of navigating the Ribble Link following call-outs to free grounded or trapped vessels. Recent rescues have included a boat perched on metal boulders on the bend at Savick…
19th June 2015
Making plans for Northampton
A convoy cruise up a little-used backwater of the River Nene is one of the more unusual activities at the Inland Waterways Association’s Northampton Festival of Water which celebrates 200 years since the canal arrived…
12th June 2015
Canals’ lost wonders recognised
David Youngs’ photo, titled ‘Where is the canal bed?’ has won first prize in a competition involving the lost wonders of the canals.
12th June 2015
Crashing through a lock
There’s a pretty shocking video doing the rounds on social media at the moment showing a narrowboat ramming a lock gate – and, not surprisingly, the Canal & River Trust like many of us is…
26th May 2015
Share the towpaths – with ducks too!
The ‘duck lanes’ which appeared on some city canal towpaths recently may have seemed like a joke – but there’s a serious message in the Canal & River Trust’s lighthearted publicity campaign: to get cyclists,…
