Around 200 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade and transport and a dumping ground for human excretion and industrial waste. The cradle of England ...

The River Roding is 40 miles long and a tributary of the Thames At 40 miles (64km) long, the River Roding is London's third largest river. From its source near Stansted airport, it snakes through ...

Few visitors know that London has 640km of waterways – and there's a serious movement taking place to restore these "blue corridors" to their former glory. Though most visitors to London think only of ...

LONDON — British police searching the River Thames for a man suspected of attacking a mother and two children with a chemical substance — who then seemed to vanish off a bridge — pulled two bodies ...

As successive generations of Londoners have lived in the city over thousands of years, their everyday lives have generated plenty of objects, whether cherished belongings or detritus. Some of these ...

This is a sponsored article on behalf of Tower of London River Tour. Did you know that the UK's first electric tour boat is now in action on the River Thames? The Silver Raven (a cheeky nod to the ...

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