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 ...

The Canal & River Trust, which is responsible for 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, has mapped the “ecological footprint” of its canal network for the first time to show how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...