Continuing his journey across the Midlands via its canals, our author finds eccentric characters, moving memorials and quaint ...

He is still right about that but since Narrow Boat was published ... the entrance of the Trent & Mersey Canal, England’s first coast-to-coast waterway, and James Brindley’s masterpiece ...

Growing numbers of people call Britain’s waterways home. In the last boater census, conducted in 2022 by the Canals and Rivers Trust (CRT), a charity, there were about 35,000 boats on canals in ...

About 20 people had to be evacuated from their narrowboats during an overnight fire at a marina. One boat was destroyed and ...

Earlier this year, Vietnam emerged - abruptly - as the biggest single source of new migrants seeking to cross the Channel to ...

Lucy, also known as the Benidorm Enthusiast, took to the Benidorm Stuff channel on YouTube to share footage of her daring ...

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 ...

An online fundraiser has been set up to help a 50-year-old Northampton General Hospital (NGH) worker “rebuild her life” after ...

We loved climbing Ilkley Moor, playing on the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey and visiting Haworth, the home of the Brontes so when I got the chance of a weekend narrowboat trip on the Leeds and ...

A canal boat at Northampton Marina caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday October 22. Photo and video credit: YouTube/Ssscrudddy. A spokesman for NFRS said: “On arrival crews discovered a narrow ...

In 2020, I decided to buy and live on a boat without having any sailing experience.I taught myself a lot and have since ...

A collection of half-timbered houses, steep cobbled lanes and ancient inns, Rye is an instant charmer. Located between the ...