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Year 5 pupils from Crick Primary School enjoy a canal day

18 April 2018

To celebrate the forthcoming Crick Boat Show (26-28 May), now Britain’s biggest inland waterways festival, our Explorers team took 32 Year 5 pupils from Crick Primary School for a walk along their local canal, the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal.
Canal Museum springs open its doors to visitors

16 April 2018

Our museum at Stoke Bruerne, home to a collection of waterway artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s canals, is now open to visitors seven days a week throughout spring and summer.
Celebrate World Heritage Day at Llangollen Canal World Heritage Site

13 April 2018

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal World Heritage Site will be celebrating World Heritage Day on Saturday 21 April with fantastic family events near its Trevor Basin Visitor Centre.
2018 national boat count shows license evasion at historic low

13 April 2018

Our annual national boat count shows that licence evasion on our waterways is at its lowest-ever level, with 96.9% of boats holding up-to-date licences (2017: 96.3%).
Get snap happy and enter the Pocklington Canal photo competition

10 April 2018

Get out your camera and start snapping – a new photo competition is now open in Pocklington with the theme “Life on the waterways”.
Winter facelift for Bosley 12 lock flight on Macclesfield Canal

10 April 2018

Cheshire’s impressive flight of 12 locks at Bosley, on the Macclesfield Canal, has been given a £240,000 winter facelift by us, ready for the start of the summer boating season.
Enfield river to become a site for artistic exchange

10 April 2018

People throughout Enfield are being encouraged to help shape a new arts project that aims to bring creative and cultural projects to the River Lee.
We're looking for volunteers to join our towpath taskforce teams

9 April 2018

We're appealing for volunteers to join towpath taskforces at canal visitor hotspots in Chester, Audlem, Anderton Boat Lift, near Northwich, and at Trevor Basin, looking after the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and the Llangollen Canal World Heritage Site.
Plants and animals on the Montgomery Canal boosted

5 April 2018

We've given a major boost to rare aquatic flora and fauna on the Montgomery Canal, one of Britain’s most picturesque canals, with a £320,000 dredging and vegetation management programme.
Battling against plastics in our waterways

3 April 2018

People in Birmingham have taken part in a canal clean up with a difference as a floating cyclist took to the waterways to raise awareness of the problems caused by plastic pollution.

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