Over the coming weeks and months, Paul Miles will be following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer L.T.C. Rolt, retracing a journey he made – and wrote about – more than 80 years ago and reflecting ...

A narrow boat left high and dry by a pre-Christmas canal bank collapse has been successfully refloated by waterways engineers. The stern of the Pacemaker was left hanging precariously over a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 10 people have been helped to safety after a 50-metre-long sinkhole breached a canal in Shropshire, leaving several ...

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