A 27-year-old firefighter opted to purchase and renovate a 49ft formerly sunken narrowboat for £15,000 instead of contending with the 'mad' housing market. El Sutcliffe, based in Burton-on-Trent, East ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan once lived on a canal boat before deciding to leave the UK in favour of Dubai. The snooker legend left ...

ZOE BULSARA has swans for neighbours. Her mornings sometimes start with ethereal sunrises over long stretches of water. Four months ago the 24-year-old illustrator left her home in Bristol and bought ...

A man given two years to live with terminal cancer says he has outlived the diagnosis - by selling his house and living on a narrow boat. Tom Smith, 40, was "mortified" when the doctors told him he ...