A man given two years to live with terminal cancer says he has outlived the diagnosis – by selling his house and living on a ...

A MAN who moved out of his home to live on a narrowboat has saved a fortune after growing tired of suburban life. Joel ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

THE roughly 35,000 people for whom the waterways of England and Wales are home are worried that what has long been a low-cost ...

In the aftermath of her own break-up seven years ago, Hannah Pierce, then 30, bought a narrowboat named Argie Bargie. Plunged into life on the water on her 45ft-long boat, she quickly learned to ...

Changes are on the way for a former pub at the riverside in Reading that has been turned into a training facility for ...

A firefighter has opted for narrowboat life after moving out of her Birmingham home. El Sutcliffe has taken an unconventional approach to the "mad" housing market by purchasing and renovating a ...

A young woman opted to purchase and refurbish a previously sunken 49ft narrowboat for £15,000, instead of dealing with the 'mad' housing market. El Sutcliffe, a 27-year-old firefighter from ...

Struggling to pay her £1,300 a month rent, the 33-year-old freelance writer from Middlesbrough used inheritance money to buy a £21,000 narrowboat — and set to work renovating the rundown ...

The new narrowboat was lowered into the river by a specialist team using a crane on Tuesday. Chris Hayes, chair of the Sleaford Navigation Trust, said she was "relieved, amazed and delighted" to ...

Robbie Cumming has been living on a narrowboat for a decade and has revealed everything about his life on the new series of Canal Boat Diaries. Robbie's series, Canal Boat Diaries, is returning to ...