Nicola White explores the Thames foreshore and examines a small find, showing how everyday objects can reveal stories from ...

Ministers pledged the 25km-long sewer would mitigate health risks, encourage recreational river use and restore wildlife ...

It's not just the river: Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team divers lift a World War II-era V-2 rocket from the seabed at Harwich, Essex, in 2012. The rocket was donated to the local sailing club, which had ...

Nicola White explores the Thames foreshore and uncovers objects that reveal everyday history. A mudlarking permit from the Port of London Authority is required in order to mudlark on the River Thames.

Letters: Terry Barker says nationalisation changes who owns the shares, it does not change the rules, while James Wallace says the powers to intervene already exist. Plus a letter from Philip Clayton ...

Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has been a focus of human activity for millennia. Making use of the limited ...

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 ...

If you have ever wandered along the Thames foreshore looking for “treasure” you have been mudlarking. With 2,000 years of intense human habitation and a tidal flow that allows you to search the ...

A project that aims to make water from the River Thames drinkable has received royal backing after Prince Richard, Duke of ...

London’s having a cold winter snap, but that used to be the norm. Joseph P. Ward writes that long ago the Thames sometimes froze over, bringing both pleasure and peril to Londoners. First, the ...

At Dorney Lake, scullers try out for Britain’s Olympic women’s rowing team. Stefan Wermuth / Reuters / Landov The Thames has been synonymous with rowing for almost three centuries. In August 1715, ...