As the end of the year approaches, and the fireside beckons, for many boaters it’s a good time to take stock and make sure their
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Author: Pauline Hawkins
November issue available now!
Amazingly… we are almost in November! It doesn’t seem so long ago that we had sizzling days, balmy nights – and worries over water availability
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October issue out now!
All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey… So sang the Mamas & the Papas in their 1960s hit California Dreamin’, but if
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September 2018 issue out now!
It’s been a busy summer on the cut, despite water shortages in some areas leading to canal closures. There seems to be no shortage of
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August issue out now!
August is almost upon us, and so far this summer has been incredibly dry after the ‘Beast from the east’ delivered snow and icy blasts
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July 2018 issue out now!
Here we are, hitting the heights of the holiday and cruising seasons and the sun is still blazing down! So dig out your wide-brimmed hat,
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Exploring the net… at Foxton Locks
Visitors to the famous Foxton Locks in Leicestershire can now take part in a spot of pond dipping and discover what bugs and beasties are
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Celebrity boaters find museum is worth its salt
Cheshire’s multi award-winning Lion Salt Works Museum in Northwich, Cheshire, has been filmed for Channel 4’s highly successful ‘Great Canal Journeys’ starring Timothy West and
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Liveaboards ‘should not be disadvantaged’ by red diesel rules
The Residential Boat Owners’ Association (RBOA) has responded to a joint call for evidence recently published by Defra and the Treasury on Non-road Mobile Machinery
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Thousands of fish rescued after culvert collapse
The Canal & River Trust has rescued more than 7000 fish following the collapse of a culvert beneath the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Melling.
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Going green…. but not in a good way
There’s something strange on London’s waterways… a green invasion that is now being tackled in the capital. A peculiar phenomenon is appearing on London’s canals,
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Marple flight of locks isn’t coping well
By Colin Wareing Inward-moving coping stones at a lock on the Marple flight have forced the Canal & River Trust to take action to keep
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It’s my second sinking today
Harry Arnold of Waterway Images looks back with fondness and humour at life on the canals in decades gone by. RETURNING to Norbury Junction is
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Re-Union Canal Boats reinvigorates volunteers on Lowland waterways
Cicely Oliver meets the team which helps to boost people’s mental and physical health. WITH no less than five long-standing volunteer organisations operating on the
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