The report of Superintendent of Public Works STEVENS is almost sensational in its disclosures and recommendations concerning the Barge Canal ... barely 20 per cent. of the whole undertaking ...

An ill-fated idea hatched centuries ago met its decisive end in the 1970s when President Richard Nixon stopped construction on the Cross Florida Barge Canal amid environmentalist appeals.

Stephen Cuddy, 59, purchased a 35ft (10m) long vintage barge off eBay for £5,000 and constructed an accurate reproduction of a Victorian canal lock (Picture: SWNS) A man has spent £30,000 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To me, holidays on canal barges do not immediately conjure up a mental picture of conspicuous luxury.

and one on which hikers routinely cover a footsore 20 to 30 kilometres a day along its lochside trails and canal towpaths. But not us. Barges and cruise boats on the Caledonian Canal. On this ...