She'd joined the growing number of people - 15,000 by the latest estimate - deciding to ditch the comforts of a house to live on a canal boat ... around England more once the boat is paid off.

A section of a canal has reopened eight months after a breach on an embankment led to a towpath collapsing and grounded boats ...

Both had our £12k share of the price approved within minutes. We were living on the boat within a week. At first it was great. There was nothing better than waking up on the canal mid-summer, having a ...

A flotilla of boats has travelled through Lincolnshire to highlight a lack of funding for inland waterways. About a dozen canal boats ... The group claims the UK's waterways generate £2.5bn ...

We were living on the boat within a week. At first it was great. There was nothing better than waking up on the canal mid-summer, having a cup of tea on the water. Not to mention the savings on ...

A WOMAN was crushed to death between a narrow boat and the side of a canal after she fell into the water. Margaret Billings, 78, became trapped between the narrow boat and the quayside of Kennet ...

The death of a retired pharmacist crushed between a canal boat and dock was an accident, a coroner has concluded. Margaret Billings, 78, from Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, was on a boating trip with ...

Police cars, ambulances, fire crews and an air ambulance all rushed to Oxford Canal after 'reports of a boat sinking ... said: "I live right by the bridge on Elizabeth Jennings Way and happened ...