A part of the Grand Union Canal bank, near Blue Bank Lock, south of Leicester, was significantly damaged when floodwater from the River Soar, which runs parallel to the canal, overtopped.

Officers tried to stop a BMW in Vaughan Way, Leicester, on Friday evening but it later smashed through a fence and entered the Grand Union Canal. Four people were taken to hospital, where one ...

Britain’s canals are in danger of disappearing without the extra funding needed to protect them from storms and floods, conservationists have warned. The Canal and River Trust warned that stretches of ...

The Grand Union Canal is the longest canal in the UK and connects London and the Midlands. Beginning in the capital, one arm of the waterway runs to Leicester while another, stretches for 137 ...

and take a canal boat over the Leicester section of the Grand Union canal from Norton Junction to Market Harborough. In all ...