On a misty winter's day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Calls have been made to suppot the UK's canal network after a recent huge "sinkhole" swallowed boats near the North Wales border.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The breach happened on the Llangollen Canal at Whitchurch in Shropshire (Oli SCARFF) (Oli SCARFF/AFP/AFP) On a misty winter's day ...

The sight starkly illustrated an ongoing battle to maintain the UK's historic, yet deteriorating, waterways. Britain's canal network "is facing pressure it has never faced before," said Charlie Norman ...