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Hoping to enable trapped boats to escape

IT WAS WAY BACK IN JANUARY that Ware Lock 2 on the Lee Navigation was closed.

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Published: 26 June 2026

Row between boaters and householders

THE ROW BETWEEN BOATERS and residents still goes on over a lock on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.

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Published: 26 June 2026

Don't get stung!

GETTING STUNG IS NOT BY someone working a fast one on you.

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Published: 26 June 2026

Sound of music comes to canalside café

 A family-run café on the Llangollen Canal will ring to the sound of music at a special event being staged as part of its fight back against the closure of a canal.

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Published: 26 June 2026

Ashing lock to save water

A LOCK ON THE ROCHDALE CANAL is being ashed to save water.

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Published: 25 June 2026

Another problem keeps Severn lock closed

UPPER LODE LOCK ON THE SEVERN has developed another problem.

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Published: 25 June 2026

Volunteers rally to tackle aquatic weed on the waterways

THIS INVASIVE SPECIES WEEK  (22–28 June), Canal & River Trust is calling on people to help protect their local waterway.

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Published: 25 June 2026

Lack of water closing navigations

THE LACK OF RAINFALL is causing problems to many waterways.

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Published: 25 June 2026

Pressure from IWA on the trust to reopen the Anderton Boat Lift

THERE IS PRESSURE FROM the Inland Waterways Association to reopen the the Anderton Boat Lift.

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Published: 24 June 2026

Too many stoppages

THERE HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN too many stoppages over the past few days.

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Published: 24 June 2026

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Latest

  • Navigations closed and reopened
  • The Whitchurch embankment failure
  • Two waterways have long term stoppages
  • No access to Ripon Marina—again
  • Base layer of breach completed—then dug up!
  • Movement of boats stopped on the Grand Union summit
  • Straight to the nitty-gritty of the accounts
  • Worry of breach at Nantwich
  • Keadby Rail Drawbridge closed for a month
  • Floating pennywort stops Avon navigation
  • Playing 'whack-a-mole' at Whitchurch
  • New Junction Canal reopened in one day
  • New chapter at Mercia Marina
  • New Junction Canal closed again
  • Narrowboat gutted in fire in Chester
  • Flight open for one day only
  • The Crossing of Whixall Moss
  • Effort to reopen Hey Lock on the Sankey Canal
  • Dedicated welfare team helps boaters access support
  • Another case of vandalism

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