The Latest Breaking News from Thames

When I meet a parliamentarian my first question is always: do you know where your nearest fire exit is? Because the Palace of Westminster, built on Thorney Island, an eyot in Thames, is falling apart. Not falling down (though the Victoria Tower leans 22mm to the north-west) but apart.

Draft TfL sign indicates the toll for car crossings from 2025, although TfL insists no final decision has been made on the new levies

The firm’s CEO said power could also be generated from solar panels in reservoirs

Here is a list of places in London left experiencing low water pressure or no water at all

First battery-powered passenger ferry in Europe launches in central London

Every Friday, volunteers gather on the Albert Embankment at the River Thames in London to lovingly retouch thousands of red hearts inscribed on a Portland stone wall directly opposite the Houses of Parliament. Each heart is dedicated to a British victim of COVID. It is a deeply social space –…

Fossils and geology stretching back millions of years are revealed on this fascinating route by river mudflats and ancient woods

Last week, I found myself under the A12 in Redbridge, wading through a muddy Thames tributary, in search of European eels. With me were two conservationists from ZSL – the organisation I lead – checking eel traps along eel migratory routes, as cars rumbled over the bridge above us.

It can be revealed that both boreholes of the Silvertown Tunnel are now complete, after a Green politician spotted the tunnel boring machine on the north bank of the Thames