A barge moored in Brindley Place Birmingham

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Heavenly host of activity returns to Islington waterside for 24th Angel Canal Festival

03 September 2010
On Sunday 5 September, City Road Basin in Islington host the 24th Angel Canal Festival.

First boat in eight decades unlocks new canal era for town

02 September 2010
The first canal boat to travel along the Barge Canal in around eighty years will usher in a new era of 'canal mania' for Droitwich.

British Waterways welcomes study to halt the colonisation of UK canals by invasive Red Swamp Crayfish

02 September 2010
Following the first sighting of an invasive Red Swamp Crayfish on a UK canal, British Waterways has welcomed a study into the potential spread of the crustacean across the UK’s inland waterway network.

World champion canoeist to make a splash about Tees Whitewater Course

01 September 2010
Britain’s Laura Blakeman, a world champion canoeist is to be an ambassador for the new £4.6m Tees Barrage whitewater course and will start by promoting it as a pre-2012 games training camp at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Slovenia from 9 – 12 September 2010.

Canal adoption scheme wins National Waterways Excellence Award

26 August 2010
The team behind a project which has transformed a stretch of the Birmingham & Fazely Canal has been awarded the National Waterways Excellence Award.

British Waterways advises of risks from algae

20 August 2010
British Waterways is asking visitors to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and its reservoirs to continue to enjoy the waterways but avoid contact with the water due to a potential bloom of blue-green algae on the canal.

Walk this way for close encounters with creatures of the night

19 August 2010
Calling all wildlife fans! Step into a fascinating twilight world as nocturnal species emerge for a night of hunting - and even hear them talk to each other - in a special event organised by British Waterways.

British Waterways creates new homes on the River Lee Navigation for the rare sand martin

18 August 2010
British Waterways is creating a series of unique nesting sites this summer for sand martins choosing to make the River Lee Navigation their home.

Board members sought for pilot Kennet & Avon Canal Waterway Partnership Board

17 August 2010
The Kennet & Avon Canal Trust and British Waterways are asking local people and organisations to nominate interested individuals to become volunteer board members on a new local Waterway Partnership Board.

Bat detectives hired to locate bat activity on Lune Aqueduct

16 August 2010
Specialist ecologists have been helping British Waterways to locate and map the movements of bats in and around Lune Aqueduct