30th October 2015
Happy Birthday Leeds & Liverpool Canal!
The Leeds & Liverpool Canal is coming up for its 200th anniversary – and waterways enthusiasts have launched a whole year of celebrations to mark the bicentenary.
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27th October 2015
Boat Licence Fees frozen for 2016
A zero percent UK inflation rate is good news for canal boaters – as it means that Canal & River Trust boat licence fees won’t be going up at all next year.
23rd October 2015
£2m puts canal restoration back on track
Supporters of the Cotswold Canals restoration are celebrating the announcement of £2 million from the Homes & Communities Agency to put the re-creation of Brimscombe Port in the Stroud valley back on track.
16th October 2015
Lichfield Canal group says “Vote for the Boat!”
A community narrowboat could soon be giving young people new skills, taking disadvantaged people on boat trips, and supporting plans to reopen the Lichfield and Hatherton canals – but only if it gets enough votes…
16th October 2015
Give bag tax to canals, says IWA
Money from the new levy on plastic carrier bags should be used to improve local communities by allocating it to cleaning up canals and rivers, says the Inland Waterways Association.
9th October 2015
Scouts turn their hands to the waterways
The Scout Association has teamed up with the Canal & River Trust as part of an initiative called A Million Hands which aims to get 500,000 Scouts to work with major charities across the UK…
9th October 2015
“And the waterways winner is…”
The restoration of a historic Leeds & Liverpool Canal working boat, the rescuing from dereliction of a length of the Cotswold Canals, and a campaign to ‘bash the balsam’ are all among the winners of…
2nd October 2015
Unusual visitor to Sharpness Docks
The Canal & River Trust were rather surprised when this dolphin tried to head up the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal from Sharpness Docks.
1st October 2015
Book now for winter moorings
Boaters who normally travel around the system but who want to stay in one place for longer than the usual permitted fortnight over the winter months can now apply to do so, as the Canal…
25th September 2015
Houseboats for London canals?
This artist’s impression shows one of 200 entries in a competition by think-tank New London Architecture to find ways to solve the capital’s housing shortage – but the idea of large numbers of futuristic static…
25th September 2015
Ill-gotten gains pay for new boat
The Chesterfield Canal Trust is to get a new tripboat – thanks to the proceeds of crime. Not the Trust’s own crimes, but money seized from convicted criminals, part of which is being put to…
