REVERTING to my letter of December 19, 1883, inserted in NATURE for January 10, 1884, I append an abstract of salient exceptional tides of last year similar to that accompanying my former letter ...

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been warned that his promise to create "swimmable rivers" in the capital by 2034 must not encourage people to swim in the dangerous tides of the Thames. The mayor ...

referring to Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend" (1865), which begins with a body being hauled from the Thames one night. But most of the deaths are accidental: people caught by the rising tide ...

Wandering the embankments above the River Thames it is not unusual to see people down on the foreshore at low tide. Kneeling or hunched over, with eyes scanning the gravel and mud, they are ...

Many people have no idea that a £4.5 billion tunnel the width of three London buses runs across the capital city - and plays ...

In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

For the first time, all masters responsible for a vessel on the tidal Thames have to undertake a minimum level of training every year. The CPD programme, regulated by the PLA, allows masters and mates ...

City Hall has issued a warning over Sadiq Khan's ambitions to make the River Thames 'swimmable' by 2034. A spokesperson for the Mayor of London has said that the tidal portion of the river will ...