Merton Council has warned the public to avoid the River Wandle after a major diesel spill polluted the "at-risk" south-west ...

When two young women find themselves sharing a beautiful Chelsea town house and a friendship in London in 1968, they are ...

The River Wandle in south London has been affected by thousands of litres of oil leaking into the environment.

I follow a lead from a City worker from over 30 years ago that remembers digging up Rare Whiskey Jugs while digging a sewer ...

London has long been defined by the river that runs through it. In Victorian times, human figures were commonly spotted at low tide, bent over and wading in the ...

These bloody words were written by 19th-Century antiquarian H.S. Cuming in On the discovery of Celtic crania in the vicinity ...

Scientists and historians finally know why hundreds of human bones are still being pulled from the bottom of the River Thames ...

With a great river like the Thames racing down towards the ocean, there is a sense of a connection to the infinite. And there is a sweet romance to the notion of a lover secretly throwing a token into ...

Until the middle of the nineteenth century the Sovereign regularly travelled on the river Thames, either on State occasions or between the Royal Palaces of Windsor, Westminster, Hampton Court, ...

And we’ll invest in upgrading our sewage works to improve river health.' Thames Water said the money will be used to 'reduce pollution incidents and storm overflows' and 'safeguard a clean ...

The local parish council said the pollution led to a “coating of brown sewage sludge” on the River Ver, which Thames Water admitted was “unacceptable”. The River Ver, which is a 28km ...

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