500 miles of canals up for adoption

TV personality and outdoor champion Julia Bradbury is joining the Canal and River Trust (CRT) to encourage local communities across England and Wales to play a bigger part in looking after the waterways on their doorstep. The aim is for a quarter of our waterways to be adopted by local people. The call comes as part of CRT's wider plans to ensure that the nation’s waterways continue to thrive and don’t fall back into the dereliction of the mid-twentieth century, when they were almost lost forever.  To find out more click here CRT