Surge in unsafe boats on waterways says RCR
River Canal Rescue is dealing with a surge in unsafe boats cruising the inland waterways. The breakdown service estimates around 16% of its 3,500 yearly…
14 May 2025
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Good news on marine mortgages
Specialist finance company Promarine, currently the only source of marine mortgages for UK inland boats, has secured a £30m revolving credit facility to support growing…
14 May 2025
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Driest start to season for years shuts Leeds & Liverpool
The driest start to the year in almost a century is forcing the Canal & River Trust to close the central Leeds & Liverpool Canal…
12 May 2025
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Flotilla takes funding plea to Westminster
The IWA says the UK government has received ‘a wake-up call’, after a flotilla from the campaigning group Fund Britain’s Waterways took its message to…
12 May 2025
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CRT sells assets to pay for boating facilities
The Canal & River Trust has announced new water taps, Elsan points and pump-out facilities for boaters over the next five years, with an extra…
06 May 2025
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Council agrees on Newry Canal restoration
In Northern Ireland the Newry Canal restoration has received unanimous support from a local council, after a decade of little progress.
A meeting of the…
01 May 2025
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Freight shift to water could support Net Zero
The IWA has published a report highlighting Britain’s underused inland waterways and advocating a shift of freight transport from road to water to meet Net…
29 April 2025
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Bridgewater breach will be repaired by December 2026
The Bridgewater Canal Company has set itself a target to repair the Dunham Massey canal breach by December 2026, around two years after the New…
29 April 2025
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Dredging on cyanide-hit Walsall Canal
Canal contractors The Rothen Group began dredging in early April to remove contaminated silt from around a mile of the Walsall Canal at Pleck.
Dredging…
15 April 2025
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HVO defended from 'significant fraud' claim
UK supporters of HVO, the new type of diesel made from waste cooking oil, have come to its defence after an environmental group alleged that…
15 April 2025
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Water company grant buys new workboat for MOWS
Melton & Oakham Waterways Society has taken delivery of a new workboat, thanks to a grant from the Severn Trent water company.
The boat was…
15 April 2025
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