Plans to clean up London's rivers have been given support with the announcement of more than £1.8bn investment from Thames ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Thames Festival Trust has announced the winners of the Thames Lens 2025, celebrating photographs that reflect individuals' relationships with the major river that flows through the UK'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 ...

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, said the super sewer will ‘mean a huge reduction in sewage going into the tidal Thames,’ adding that the city has to ‘now build on this work to go further ...

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.

Show more Mary heads off down the Thames - from the gentle, calm waters of the non-tidal Thames to the fast-flowing, choppy banks in central London. Mary explores the hidden gems of this iconic ...

By Alexander Nazaryan The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements ... arguing that they had been moved by powerful tides. The study also sheds light on archaeology’s “missing ...