In past centuries, you might have given your valentine a bent coin, jewelry made out of hair, or a carved whale tooth instead of a bouquet of roses.

Housed in a 200-year-old former storage warehouse, the Museum of London Docklands tells the story of the Thames port and the ... excellent soft play area, the Mudlarks Gallery, for under-8s.

These “mudlarks”— a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes etc. in mud or low tide—routinely scavenged the foreshore of the Thames, making a living by selling ...

Hundreds of human bones have emerged from the River Thames in the last two centuries, most of them prehistoric.

Chronology efforts led by researchers at Natural History Museum, London, and Historic England have produced 30 new dates for ...

Thames Water is being investigated over late delivery of environmental improvement schemes, the industry regulator has announced. Ofwat said the enforcement case against the company, currently ...

Earlier reports said that Covalis would inject about £1bn into Thames Water, with £4bn more raised from asset sales, refinancing and a stock market listing. Money latest: My company cut my pay ...

What I do is go out in the middle of the night with a headtorch and kneepads at low tide onto the Thames; I’m a mudlark. It’s total solitude and I love it. It’s brilliant therapy.

Nicola Arthur, curator at the Natural History Museum, said: ‘Most people – including Londoners! – are quite taken aback to hear that hundreds of human bones have come from the River Thames.