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.

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 ...

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 ...

Overflows from an adjacent river into the Grand Union Canal had increased water pressure in one of the waterway's locks, ...

just across the Grand Union Canal from Abbey Park. What is currently an industrial building would be demolished under the plans. Documents published by Leicester City Council show that the ...

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

More than 25 swans have been found dead in a London canal. Charity Swan Support said it began at the end of September when volunteers discovered several of the dead birds along the Grand Union ...

The Grand Union Canal is the longest canal in the UK and connects London and the Midlands. Beginning in the capital, one arm ...