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'Seize the moment!' Rachel Reeves urged to give green light to £1.7bn DLR extension to Thamesmead

Pressure grows on Chancellor to help fund new DLR route under the Thames

Evening Standard

From the Great Stink to the modern sewage scandal: why 19th-century sewers are failing 21st-century England

The raw sewage in England’s rivers and seas is not just a story of corporate failure. It’s also a legacy of Victorian sewers – impressive and high-tech in their day, but with inequality and exploitation baked in.

The Conversation

Five million wet wipes cleared from disgusting 'island' in Thames — as false teeth and trousers also found

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London

Evening Standard

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Listed Central London building to be transformed into luxury hotel

The new hotel in Billingsgate will have 179 rooms, a basement spa and its own gallery

Evening Standard

“It was like we’d climbed the mountain. My head was spinning every time I sang it”: Yes created longer songs than Close To The Edge, but none with as much impact

Classical music, Eastern mysticism and the River Thames came together to inspire the 19-minute title track from their fifth album in 1972

Louder

Fed-up swimmers take on the Thames in fight against water pollution and tell lawmakers it's a "national scandal"

Eight athletes took part in the mammoth swim in support of a Surfers Against Sewage campaign to clean up British rivers

Advnture

Floating restaurant could open on River Thames in south west London

A new floating restaurant could soon open on the River Thames in south London.

Evening Standard

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Lower Thames Crossing first scheme with new environmental approach – minister

Other projects could also be made ‘faster’ by a drive to scrap and streamline environmental rules, Steve Reed said.

Evening Standard

‘Ruth had big ideas’: girl who died in psychiatric care was failed by system, say parents

Inquest told Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, received ‘little, if any, therapeutic care’ at privately run Huntercombe hospital

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark

Two tennis courts’ worth of wet wipes have accumulated in a rotting pile by Hammersmith Bridge. I went along to witness the horrors – and the cleanup operation

The Guardian - UK

M25 closed near Dartford Crossing after lorry carrying tyres catches fire

National Highways said it was forced to shut the road in both directions between Junction 29 for Romford and Junction 30 for the Thames crossing.

Evening Standard

London's Wet Wipe Island: Work starts to remove congealed waste from River Thames

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World’s swankiest manhole covers? A thrilling tour of the new embankments concealing London’s £4.6bn super sewer

Built to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement, the Tideway project has also generated dramatic new public spaces dotted with giant artworks. Our writer takes the ‘stink tower’ tour of the capital

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Our wasteful culture has led us to Wet Wipe Island - it needs to change

Authorities are resorting to desperate measures to remove Wet Wipe Island near Hammersmith Bridge. It’s fallen to the Port of London Authority, which once ran London’s docks, to remove the equivalent of 15 double decker buses of waste from the Thames.

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Footage shows diggers removing ‘disgusting’ island of wet wipes from Thames

The arm of a digger could be seen plunging into the mud and pulling out chunks of stringy wet wipes.

Evening Standard

London's disgusting 'wet wipe island' to be removed as work begins to excavate 180 tonnes of congealed waste

Work is under way to excavate the estimated 180 tonnes of congealed waste near Hammersmith Bridge

Evening Standard

Country pub of the week: the Angel on the Bridge, Henley-on-Thames

David Ellis drinks his way down memory lane in Henley

Evening Standard

More traffic at weekends, in Rotherhithe tunnel and on Woolwich ferry since opening of Silvertown tunnel

TfL reveals early impact of Sadiq Khan’s £2.2 billion road tunnel under the Thames

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Met Police officers accused of bust-up with Romanians after boozy Thames boat party

The officers had been drinking heavily before they boarded a river boat for their Christmas party, a court heard

Evening Standard

Drought declared in East and West Midlands in driest start to year since 1976

Three further areas – Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, East Anglia, and Thames area – move into prolonged dry weather status.

Evening Standard

Thames Water boss receives £1m despite doubling in 'serious' pollution

Thames Water also reveals it made a £1.6 billion loss last year

Evening Standard

Thames Water sinks to £1.6bn loss as debt mountain balloons

The struggling utility tumbled to a £1.65 billion pre-tax loss for the year to March 31 from profits of £157 million the previous year.

The Independent UK

Inside the centuries-old swan census ordered by King Charles III

The annual five-day census of swans dates back to the 12th century

The Independent UK

Where in the UK is in drought - and will it spread to the rest of the country?

Thames Water has warned it could introduce a hosepipe ban unless water shortages ‘change significantly’

Evening Standard

London's 'super sewer' exec gets £600,000 pay rise whilst Thames Water customers foot the project cost

Thames Water customers are expected to foot the bill for the project through bills increases

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