Built primarily between 1700 and 1900, the Birmingham Canal network was the lifeblood ... they drove forward the Industrial Revolution in England. Your base will be in Birmingham city centre ...

His 1944 book Narrow Boat, about his travels along the canals of England with his first wife Angela in a converted wooden ...

The banks of a canal in Cheshire collapsed on New ... floodwater trapping people in their homes across the north west of England.

Almost 1.2m people in Yorkshire live within a 10-minute walk of a waterway and could help nature by undertaking jobs like weeding and litter picks, said the Canal& River Trust. There are 320 miles ...

THE WEST Midlands is home to a number of historical and scenic waterways, and one has been named among the country’s most beautiful. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal has been crowned England ...

There's history behind it, too; the canal opened in the early 19th century to transport coal, building materials and other goods from northern industrial cities to King's Cross – a long-standing ...

Liz McIvor looks at who built the nation's canal network, who funded it, those who worked on it and how they were regenerated following WWII. Britain's relationship with the canals of the ...

Recent sunshine has seen duck weed spread rapidly through the region's waterways An "explosion of duck weed" is swamping Lancashire's canals, according to the Canal and River Trust (CRT).

An amber warning covering parts of the North West of England remains in place ... where a resident said the nearby canal had "burst its banks". At 10.30am today, a Merseyside Fire and Rescue ...

With spring around the corner, the national charity Canal & River Trust is preparing the ground for the year ahead and is calling on volunteers in Northamptonshire to help the much-loved and many ...