Appropriately, it was shining brightly the day I undid my mooring ropes, passing the Light, a new entertainment complex adjacent to the canal, with 10-pin bowling, arcade games and a multi-screen ...

It was just going to be a week's holiday. A brief escape from the constant deadlines and day-to-day challenge of being a ...

AN ELDERLY woman was cast adrift after vandals cut the ropes to her canal boat which left her floating on the Worcester and Birmingham canal. Amanda Huxtable fears she was targeted because she is ...

However, this has been difficult to do due to the boat's outboard motor being removed. She and her son have had to pull the boat along the canal using a rope while standing on the towpath.

Two men with no prior experience of living on a canal boat have shared what they did during their first day onboard to make their new abode more homely.

Margaret Billings, 78, died after she fell from a canal boat and was crushed against a dock, according to an inquest in the U.K. reported by the BBC ...

The boats, or packets as they were called, were pulled by a team of horses or mules attached to a rope. The animals walked along the side of the canal on what was known as a tow path.

I even learned to make rope. For a few years I lived in a house near the canal but the pull of the waterways brought me back onto a boat. Now it's just a short walk to work in the morning.

Officers surrounded the canal and the suspect was unable to get out. The Fresno Fire Department responded to the scene and had a boat ready.

They used a rope to send a firefighter down into the canal to rescue the dog. After about 20 minutes, they were able to grab it and reunite it with its owner, safe and sound.

Two men with no prior experience of living on a canal boat have shared what they did during their first day onboard to make their new abode more homely.

She and her son have had to pull the boat along the canal using a rope while standing on the towpath. Other boaters have also helped by towing the boat some of the way.