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Johnnie Matthews immediately regretted his decision after discovering the stretch of water was only 3ft deep and smashing the heel of his right foot

Johnnie Matthews, 36, stripped to his undies and jumped into the water - and now cannot work

Decades of disrepair reversed at Marble Hill, home built on the Thames for king’s mistress and court society figure

Activists hold banners saying ‘fossil fuel war’ at British port

Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline

For 15 years outsize developments have been making a mess of the Thames – and this South Bank scheme is among the worst, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

From the Great Stink to being declared biologically dead, the Thames has always been polluted. So why is it considered one of the cleanest rivers, asks Veronica Edmonds-Brown

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…