The Latest Breaking News from River Thames

The first in a series of photo essays looking at a year in the life of the great River Thames. Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, takes a look at the many sides and seasons of the waterway

Eight Greenpeace activists who blocked a Russian oil tanker in the River Thames have been arrested.

It is one year since Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, who was known as Jimi, died after jumping into the River Thames to save a woman.

The floating home on Taggs Island has tropical gardens and a large roof terrace.

It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city. What’s even more surprising is that it reached that status just 60 years after being declared “biologically dead” by scientists at London’s Natural History Museum. Yet despite this…

Specialist officers launched hunt after dark on Thursday

Move comes amid concern quality of England’s waterways could pose risk to wild swimmers

Port Meadow in Oxford could become the first area to have the alerts

A victory apiece as the famous race returned to the River Thames

The Boat Race returns to the River Thames on Sunday after a two-year hiatus.

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