"I don't run alone down the canal because if you start being followed, how do you escape?" Phoebe Lake lives in Nottingham, ...

W alkers say they are scared to walk along a Nottingham canal alone after a woman was reportedly attacked and robbed by a group of youths. The victim, in her 40s, was assaulted along the towpath ...

Valerie Ball, 67, who has lived on her canal boat at Nottingham's Castle Marina for three years, said: "I love living on the canal, and I walk along the towpath every day.

The walk incorporates the old Nottingham canal. It was completed in 1796 to link the city to Derby. It took 20 years to complete but was eventually superseded by the railway.

After almost two years an abandoned boat is in the process of being removed from the Nottingham and Beeston Canal. The Canal and River Trust is in the process of removing the boat, which has been ...