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BRITISH Marine has named Lesley Robinson as its new chief executive. She will take up the position on July 16. A qualified accountant, she has

THIS summer Canal & River Trust is encouraging people to celebrate the nation’s most beautiful blooming boats. At this time of year hundreds of boats

THIS year’s 30 Days Wild is a record breaker. The challenge, which ended on Saturday, saw more participants than ever before.  New analysis by The

THE Canal & River Trust has announced a raft of initiatives aimed to benefit boaters and help manage the strain placed on the network in

A NEW 1.2km section of an important regional waterways infrastructure project will be opened at Studley Grange between Royal Wootton Bassett and Swindon on Wednesday

MENTAL and physical wellbeing are both the biggest motivation for and benefit of boating according to the Canal & River Trust’s latest Boat Owners’ Views

THE Canal & River Trust has recovered the last boat stranded by a breach of the Shropshire Union Canal, Middlewich Branch, back in March. A

SCOTTISH Canals has launched a new strategy setting out how the organisation will manage, care for, and prioritise works on the infrastructure of the nation’s

A FORMERLY derelict lock on the Grantham Canal has received its first lock gates for nearly 60 years after hard-working volunteers spent three years painstakingly

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

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

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

The Canal & River Trust has rescued more than 7000 fish following the collapse of a culvert beneath the Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Melling.