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Protect against winter downpours

7 November 2025 - Canal Boat UK

AWARDS for those working to keep waterways alive

6 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

The IWA’s 66th annual general meeting at the Jubilee Conference Centre, Nottingham, welcomed more than 100 attendees in person and ...

New Issue of Canal Boat!

6 November 2025 - Canal Boat UK

75% of Britain’s waterways face financial peril as almost all brace for heavier winter rainfall

5 November 2025 - Canal Boat UK

New IWA Risk Index warns of threat to waterways by 2050

5 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

The IWA has announced a first-of-its-kind map estimating the likely impact of a 2°C warming on Britain’s navigable canals and rivers. This figure …

Lottery award to complete Stroudwater project

5 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded another £6.46m to help ensure the Stroudwater Canal restoration is completed.  The NLHF had already injected almost £10m to …

Toddbrook Reservoir reopens after £50m repair

5 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

Over six years after Toddbrook Reservoir came close to collapse, and following repairs totalling £50m, repair work should be completed by Christmas. The reservoir has undergone a major redesign …

BE A BRICK and buy one!

5 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

Volunteers are looking to late autumn and the start of the next phase in connecting the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal ...

Canal dwellers given free coal in act of kindness

4 November 2025 - BBC News

One recipient, who has lived on the water for 12 years, says the coal is "very welcome indeed".

Historic canal to be restored with £6.4m

4 November 2025 - BBC News

An accessible towpath from Stroud to Gloucester will be created to form a "wildlife corridor".

Gate failure closes Anderton Boat Lift for entire year

4 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

The Anderton Boat Lift will stay closed for the whole of 2026. Announcing the news at the end of October, the Canal & River Trust said a gate lifting wire …

LOCK CLOSURE forces more lorries onto Yorkshire’s roads

4 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) has said the Canal & River Trust’s plan to close Sykehouse Lock, on the New ...

FESTIVE FUN and lots of community spirit!

3 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

THE Cotswold Canals Trust is looking ahead and preparing for welcoming families aboard its Santa Cruises.  Every child will receive ...

Awards celebrate volunteer excellence on nation’s canals

3 November 2025 - Canal Boat UK

Lottery funding for historic Oxford Canal boat

3 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

The Jericho Living Heritage Trust has been awarded £210,728 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore a historic narrowboat on the Oxford Canal. Built in 1912 as …

Ethel is star of Ghost Ships of Doncaster

3 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

On 25th October, for the third year in succession, the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation hosted Ghost Ships of Doncaster, said to be the biggest and longest illuminated boat procession …

CRT briefly reopens drought-hit canals for winter passage

3 November 2025 - Waterways World Paid

On the last week of October the Canal & River Trust briefly raised several stoppages on its drought-stricken navigations, giving affected boaters a window to reach their home navigations …

AWARD WINNING South Yorkshire Community Barge ‘Lights Up’ the Ghost Ships of Doncaster Fund Raising Event.

2 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

For the first time this year, the Ethel Trust’s community barge ‘Pearl’ has supported the Ghost Ships of Doncaster fund ...

WIN A YEAR’S RCR SILVER MEMBERSHIP

1 November 2025 - Canal Boat UK

BRIDGE REBUILT with help from group volunteers

1 November 2025 - Towpath Talk

The restoration of the Cotswolds Canals has taken a vital step forward following the completion of a years-long project.THE Cotswold ...

NEW CHAIRMAN takes the lead in boosting fundraising support

31 October 2025 - Towpath Talk

THE Friends of the Montgomery Canal has welcomed a new chairman. Elected member Brian Williams, who has a lifelong love ...

CHARITY BOAT TRIPS: Cleaner and quieter…

30 October 2025 - Towpath Talk

Popular boat trips are cleaner and quieter thanks to a generous grant for an electric engine. THE Melksham, Chippenham & ...

Closed canal temporarily reopens after dry summer

29 October 2025 - BBC News

The Oxford Canal between Claydon and Aynho reopened for a week from Monday.

Lottery Players’ Support Helps Charity Undertake Vital Winter Maintenance Programme

29 October 2025 - Canal Boat UK

MONTGOMERY CANAL: Interactive audio trail launched

29 October 2025 - Towpath Talk

An audio trail telling the story of the rich heritage and wildlife of the two-century old Montgomery Canal has been ...

Concerns over Great Ouse river maintenance

28 October 2025 - Waterways World Paid

A leading boatyard owner on the Great Ouse has expressed growing fears at the state of sluices on the river. Ben Jones operates over 250 moorings in two marinas at …

Weekend of vandalism on London canals

28 October 2025 - Waterways World Paid

The Canal & River Trust estimates a five-figure bill has been run up for emergency works, after a careless boater twice rammed the top gates of a Regent's …

ROYAL SEAL OF APPROVAL for boat building

28 October 2025 - Towpath Talk

The Princess Royal has visited the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis to meet students past and present and learn ...

BRING BACK the boats!

27 October 2025 - Towpath Talk

For almost three years, visiting boats have been unable to moor at Trevor Basin, near Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, on the Llangollen ...

'Once I got an editor's pick, I was hooked'

27 October 2025 - BBC News

Josie Weller has been a BBC Weather Watcher for eight years.