Recent Canal News from across the UK Inland Waterways
An archive of our waterway news. To view our latest 6 news articles visit our main Canal News page.
- £100 parking fines for Thames boaters
- Over 100 WRG volunteers descend on Stroud
- 1,361 unlicensed boats spotted by CRT in March
- 20 sunken boats to be raised to reduce flood risk
- 2016 IWA Festivals, & Liverpool cruise gets easier
- Big rebuild starts on Grantham Canal locks
- 28 WRG Canal Camps across 13 waterways!
- EA criticised for sale of Ely moorings
- £3.8 million grant to restore canal tug
- London gets moorings & bins, Manchester get paint
- Marinas operator BWML becomes Aquavista
- Less emergencies but more breakdowns in 2021.
- £40 for a Bridgewater Canal return journey?
- 42 chances to learn to build & repair lock gates!
- £5 million award towards Chesterfield Restoration
- £62,000 needed to restore Museum’s Joey Boat
- Some 6Kg Calor cylinders could explode
- 85% more East London ‘Continuous Cruisers’!
- ‘Adrift’ – a life afloat on a London houseboat
- Another floating house adds to London Liveaboards
- Are steel canalboats a sensible design for living?
- Ashton & Peak Forest Canals get deeper!
- Auction of rare canal ware and useful boat bits
- Award winning tour boat seeks new duck and drake!
- Ban on hired narrowboats on tidal Thames relaxed
- Big rise in canal boat sinkings & rescues
- Bike powered ‘Water Bed’ for inner city camping?
- Birmingham Canals Main Line Closed by Vandals
- Birmingham centre canal closed by leak – Updated
- Boat gets jammed in HNC lock 9c – again!
- Letting your boat turn(s) you into a Landlord
- What are Boat versus House living costs?
- Boater Dies in Harecastle Tunnel Incident
- Boaters find Ribble Link crossing ‘too exciting’!
- Boaters warned about having too many hang ups!
- The Book that Saved Canals from Oblivion
- Book your CRT winter moorings now!
- Braunston marina plans get thumbs down
- Bridges reopened to boaters after Christmas floods
- British Marine Inland Boating – work that out!
- Broads tolls limited to inflation to help boaters
- Burnt out narrowboat sinks in lock
- Long Term Moorings ‘selling’ now online?
- A Cajun Festival close to the Llangollen Canal?
- CRT canal boat licensing overdue for renewal?
- Canal coronavirus lockdown Updates
- Canal heritage damaged by vandals, boaters, vehicles
- Canal Linocuts Exhibition at Waterways Museum
- Canal Liveaboards can join the club!
- Canal Map App Proving Smart Choice
- Canal Retreats, a relaxing way to slow down!
- Canal & River Trust launches
- Canals Breaking on to Google
- Canals Easter Recovery from Winter Storms
- Canals get gradual release from Covid lockdown
- Capsized narrowboat raised from River Soar
- Census 2021 – boats are households too!
- Central Shires lacks identity and is to be closed
- Chance to become one of the Welshpool few!
- Charity cuts back vegetation and finds award
- Cheese boat gets cheese fly out of pickle!
- River Weaver flood sinks & strands over 40 boats
- Chester to host 2014 IWA Campaign Festival
- Chester Lock May Unlock Deserted Waterways
- Chesterfield Canal Cuckoo Boat safely launched
- Chesterfield Canal to host 2016 Trailboat Festival
- Choosing an Accessible canal holiday boat
- Close that weedhatch or get sinking feeling!
- ‘Carry on Cruising’ – or risk losing your licence! Update
- Continuous non cruisers won’t get a licence
- Coping with flooding on canals & rivers
- Corinavirus impact on UK Canals, boaters & towpaths
- Could a 10 ton narrowboat pull help float your boat?
- CRT aims to ‘deliver excellent customer service’
- CRT backtracks on business boat licence fee changes
- CRT can’t remove boat from tidal Grand Union
- CRT fee increases may close some hire firms.
- CRT finds extra £2m for maintenance this winter
- C&RT judged OK so far, but much more to do.
- CRT not protected from developers like Nat. Trust
- Has CRT the skills to work with liveaboard boaters?
- CRT staff to work flexible Summer & Winter hours
- CRT has ‘stunning year financially’
- Cut locking effort with a cut price ratchet Windlass!
- Damp wood deadly and costly on boat stoves
- December rains flood waterways & damage boats
- Deep Diglis Lock gets filled with visitors
- Defibrillator installed at Leicestershire Marina
- Those Diesel Bugs are Biting Again!
- You dig 40 tons, what do you get – a cleaner BCN!
- Drought closes Northern waterways to boaters
- Dukinfield Cleanup commemorates ‘Ashtac’.
- Easier access to the River Dee for canal boaters?
- Under funded East Anglian Waterways facing closure.
- Traditional Boats Easter Gathering at Ellesmere Port
- Emergency appeal to repair canal breach
- Environment Agency Rivers won’t join CRT
- Environmentally friendly bilge filter wins award
- Epic 127 mile trans Pennine canal birthday party!
- Erewash Canal Boat Rally Double Celebration
- Etruria Canals Festival attracts nearly 7000
- Explore forgotten canals on a horse drawn fly boat!
- Fens cruise finally succeeds after EA clears silted lock
- Fiddle and Bone will play new tunes
- Fishy Business at Shackerstone Festival
- Winter Floods Increase Canal Rescues by 75%
- Floating tractor digs way through tunnel
- Fly boat Saturn begins 2013 tour in blizzard
- Four canal restoration projects share £200k
- Google floats new barge venture!
- Government still wants to transfer EA rivers to CRT
- Grant marks Montgomery restoration progress
- Green House Sailing Pennine Canal
- Hairy Biker helps cook up Ferret Appeal!
- Harry Arnold MBE gets awarded again!
- High Rents blamed for ‘Naval Invasion’
- IWA to co-ordinate canals HST2 campaign
- Hire boat sits on lock cill and sinks
- Hired narrowboats banned from Tidal Thames
- Green cruising Hireboat without mains electric!
- Historic canal bridge put back on the rails
- Horse drawn boat trips on Montgomery Canal
- Horse drawn trip boat is looking for a rescuer
- Hotel Boats getting ready for the off!
- Hotelboat holidays booking up, a business opportunity?
- HS2 crashes on as canal deckchairs get rearranged
- Hurleston locks pinch point may get shaved.
- ‘Idle Woman’, Sonia Rolt OBE, dies at 94
- HS2 Fradley impact reduced by tunnelling
- Isolated Lancaster Canal to be dredged for trailboats
- IWA Birmingham goes fishing for trollies!
- IWA creates a ‘Vision for London’
- IWA Festival gets lowest attendance for 60 years.
- IWA joins Lapal Canal Battle against Sainsbury’s
- June breakdowns, sinkings, gales, fire & pollution!
- Kennet and Avon Mooring Concerns
- Canal Cleanup celebrates Guillotine restoration!
- Lack of moorings stops boaters visiting London
- Lancaster and Montgomery canals cut in two by leaks
- Learn the ropes before your first holiday afloat
- Leeds & Liverpool closed by embankment collapse
- Leeds & Liverpool canal to get 30 new mileposts.
- Life Jackets should be worn in Tunnels
- Liveaboard boaters must move neighbourhoods
- Liveaboard boaters get ‘stay put’ winter licence
- Liverpool Link access to be made easier
- Living Waterways Awards Winners Announced
- Llangollen Canal closed by storm damage
- Llangollen Canal Hurleston lock woes get worse
- Locked locks already happening in 2019
- London boats ‘explosion’ and infrastucture can’t cope
- London liveaboards strain breakdown services
- Macclesfield Canal gets the first waterways green flag
- Macclesfield & Peak Forest closed to through passage!
- Making Waves on the Monty this Summer
- Manchester wants more visiting boaters.
- What it means to be a ‘Continuous Cruiser’.
- Middlewich breach caused by lock paddles left open
- Mike Clarke Lock tribute to ‘Mr Leeds & Liverpool’
- Montgomery Canal grant boosts restoration hopes
- Moorers to be evicted from ‘free’ moorings in Bath
- Mooring advice for 200 new liveaboards
- Mooring Providers asked to cross-check boat records
- More boat deaths due to Carbon Monoxide
- More marinas despite fifth of berths vacant
- No narrowboats again in London Boat Show
- National Maritime Museum floats mystery boat
- New CRT licence conditions get waterways support
- New lock paddle pawls nearly sink narrowboat
- New ratchet windlass helps take the strain
- New safety courses for people who work by water
- New winter mooring options for liveaboards
- New Wrenbury Marina gets go ahead despite objections
- No agreement on transfer of EA Waterways
- No room for lock at Somerset tidal barrier
- Not much new in CRT license fee changes
- Grant to NWM to restore 2 nationally important boats
- NWM Trainees Keeping Narrowboats Afloat
- Olympic Flame burning high
- Olympic Passenger Boats Firm goes Bust
- Online booking for boaters to be trialled
- Orange replaces lager and crisps at the Waterloo!
- Up to half live-aboards ‘break licence terms’
- Police think fugitive is living on a canal boat
- Race to get Staveley Basin ready for Trailboats
- Rare canal books go for auction in November
- Nights at the Museum – Frights and Real Ales
- Recurrent sluice gate fault leaves boats aground
- Boatyard & Marina Red Diesel pumps could run dry
- Restore the Montgomery Canal!
- River Cam’s Collapsing Banks Saved
- Canal and river boat Grounding Alert
- RCR helps recover stranded Canal du Midi cruisers
- River Weaver Freight Traffic Sails Away
- Rochdale Canal finally fully reopens to boaters
- Rogue repairers cashing in on London boaters
- Rootless Forest cruises Birmingham routes
- Safer to wind down paddles with just one hand?
- Scam Season Arrives on the Canals!
- Scottish Canals Crisis as Hire Boat Operator Quits
- Scottish Canals split, in crisis again.
- Ship Canal Cruises
- Single Handed Canal Boating Top Ten Tips
- Some canals still closed by Christmas floods
- Special 10th anniversary one off river cruises
- Spending on canal dredging to double.
- Stafford Riverway Link double celebration
- Wigan still without Pier, but will get a ‘Quarter’!
- Sunken boats should be floated more quickly
- Sunken cruiser lifted from Middlewich T&M
- Sunken party boat raised from K&A Lock
- Taking the long (canal) way home
- The Montgomery Canal Triathlon is back!
- Bingley Three rise to top lock keeper’s award
- Three sunken canal boats raised by RCR in 24 hours
- Tidal Thames to become busier, cleaner, more fun!
- Too much water sinks boats and closes canals
- Toxic fumes big killer of boaters
- Travel back in time at Ellesmere and Anderton
- Trent and Mersey Canal Breaches Update
- Trent & Mersey Canal closed by heavy rain
- T & M Dutton Breach Reopens
- Tug to pull Tub Boat on Shrewsbury Canals
- Turbulent Times on the Llangollen Canal!
- Twenty four unlicensed boats removed by CRT
- Two cross Pennine canal routes now closed.
- Unchecked canal boats sinking during lockdown
- Unlicenced Boat Owners fined over £2000.
- Campaign for VAT Cut on Holidays on the Cut
- Veteran BW Vans need TLC says CRT
- Volunteers wanted to help move workboats
- Wandering Duck Tourism Experience of the Year
- Wappenshall warehouse restoration plans in crisis
- Water, Locks and Linocuts Exhibition at the NWM
- Waterway Recovery Group Reunion ‘Bash’
- Waterways Hardship Fund set up to help needy boaters
- Waterways Patron now heads up DEFRA
- Wexp get Queens Award for Voluntary Service
- Why do canal boats breakdown and sink?
- Winter moorings available, 3% rise & new Band Zero
- Winter moorings now up for grabs
- Worthy cause needs your unwanted boats
- Wrenbury and Ellesmere marina plans questioned
- Yellow Duck (DUKW) Sinks with 31 Passengers
- Your 250v generator could give you more than a shock
- Your boat could take you farther afield next year!
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