VIDEO: East London boaters on why they chose to make a home on the water
Following a surge in houseboat sales, three young people share their experiences of canal life and offer some advice to people thinking of joining them
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Plastic-Free Hackney forges ahead with canal rewilding project
Call for volunteers to help with canalside clean-up
Fewer bins…less litter? Canal & River Trust plan to remove receptacles from towpaths meets concern
40 per-cent of litter bins could be removed from along the River Lea in a bid to prevent fly-tipping and “mistreatment”
Putting in a Shift – ideas from the public sought for new canalside community and business hub
Make Shift’s efforts to ‘transform underused urban space’ are currently being applied to Clarnico Quay, a disused site in between the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick
‘Continuous cruiser’ wins battle against canal eviction
But the new six-month licence is far too short, he says
'Strange meeting' of painters at Haggerston Riviera exhibition
Wilfred Owen poem provides inspiration for a group painting exhibition at Canal project space
Away from the Hackney main stream
Some of the borough’s more adventurous residents share the secrets of life on the river