A section of the Stourbridge Canal in the West Midlands has been closed.

To paraphrase Kevin Costner in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come – with "they" being the tourists, in this particular case. That wasn't the purpose behind the construction ...

All three narrowboats stranded at the bottom of a hole caused by a large canal breach in Shropshire have been pulled clear. The third boat, Sefton, was pulled clear on Thursday afternoon, just a few ...

Pete Barnett, from River and Canal Rescue, says it's rare for a narrowboat to sink like this A narrowboat that sank on a canal, blocking it for days, has been stripped of everything on board, its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moment a narrowboat fell into a giant hole after an embankment collapsed in Whitchurch, England, on Monday, December 22, was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is early summer in the village of Cheddleton in England’s West Midlands, where a man named Barry, a trustee ...

Robbie Cumming is back with a new series of Canal Boat Diaries FOR anyone bored of the usual all-inclusive resorts and seeking a non-conventional staycation should think about boating, according to an ...

Police are appealing for help to trace a narrowboat stolen in Warwickshire. They say the red and black narrowboat with a red and cream roof has been stolen on the canal road in Wilmcote. "Please join ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vandals have been blamed for emptying a section of canal, leaving a narrowboat grounded and capsized. The Canal and River Trust ...

The Canal and River Trust said water could not return to the canal until the boat had been recovered Vandals have been blamed for emptying a section of canal, leaving a narrowboat grounded and ...