Narrowboat

A major part of a 10-year plan to regenerate the River Trent in Nottingham has started. British Waterways is investing £1.5m to improve the city’s river and canal network and link the towpath between Beeston Canal and the River Trent. The aim is to encourage more cyclists, walkers and boaters to enjoy the waterways and [...]

Work is to begin on a £500,000 restoration project of a Leicestershire canal after funding was secured. The money for the Snarestone phase has come from the East Midlands Development Agency (Emda) and is part of a £14m revamp of Ashby canal. It will be spent on a nature reserve, new fencing and an improved [...]

I’ve been on the Avon, the Severn, and the Thames, but all are inland where the main danger is to try and not go after heavy rain when the current gets strong. Unlike the crew of Indigo Dream, who went out into the Severn Estuary, with a pilot of course, but in heavy fog. Part [...]

In recent times there’s been news in a slowdown in new developments, so it looked like the continuous change in the waterfront in Leeds to be on pause, though the YEP, reported on a £48million project to change the Leeds Tower Works. It looks like a large development incorporating old with the new in a [...]

It’s been reported on the Derbyshire BBC News site that the police are launching a scheme to target canal crime. This seems to mainly be circulating an information pack, which I can assume will be similar to one I received at home a while ago when the police were targeting crime in my locality, with [...]