But along the full 213-mile course of the river ... team of 10 divers can therefore only go into the Thames in certain circumstances. The river is also extremely dark and deep: up to 20 metres ...

A trade union has said River Thames lock and weir keepers are set to be balloted for industrial action over safety concerns.

A Tudor wool knitted hat and a Viking-era dagger are among a series of objects found on the banks of the River Thames which ...

Wandering the embankments above the River Thames it is not unusual to see people ... things that have been mislaid or discarded over the course of London’s long history. Objects survive in ...

The Head of the River Race (HOTRR) sees teams of eights (all male) race against each other along the Thames. They cover the same course as the Boat Races, but the other way around, from Putney to ...

When you look at rivers like the River Severn or the Thames, you can see how there are ... often there are major towns and cities along the course of a river because historically people have ...

A study led by a University of Waterloo researcher has learned that climate change is increasing the potential for algal blooms in the United Kingdom's River Thames despite a four-decade-long ...

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old. By Alexander Nazaryan The banks of the Thames River have hosted human ...

River Thames lock keepers are set to vote on strike action over safety fears and ‘serious concerns’ relating to staffing, infrastructure and flooding.

London's new £5bn super sewer has been fully connected and is already stopping half a million tonnes of sewage from entering the River Thames, the firm behind it has said. After 10 years of ...

The EA said workers' and river users' safety is a "top priority ... on our approach to modernising navigation on the Thames in due course." ...