It follows Sir Sadiq Khan's recently announced plans to "make rivers in London swimmable within 10 years". Around £1.8bn from ...

Thames Water is embroiled in a court battle as junior creditors challenge a £3 billion debt lifeline, suggesting it gives ...

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been warned that his promise to create "swimmable rivers" in the capital by 2034 must not encourage people to swim in the dangerous tides of the Thames. The mayor ...

The beautiful and historic River Thames has been captured in all its glory in the Thames Lens 2025 competition ...

Wandering the embankments above the River Thames it is not unusual to see people down on the foreshore at low tide. Kneeling or hunched over, with eyes scanning the gravel and mud, they are ...

In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

in mud or low tide—routinely scavenged the foreshore of the Thames, making a living by selling items that they found. Animal bones, human teeth, relics of war, religious curios, children’s ...

Boat Race will be the 170th time that Oxford and Cambridge’s men have raced against each other and the 79th time the women’s ...

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a deep-level ‘super sewer’ that spans 15 miles from Acton to Stratford, along the tidal section of the River Thames. Work on the tunnel began in 2016, and ...