Boulters to Bray Swim, which dates back more than a century and sees hundreds of entries each year, was cancelled in 2024 over risks to swimmers’ safety due to sewage in the Thames.

Ed began his journey in Gloucestershire - where the river originates. Its starting point, known as Thames Head, does not have a fixed location, but arises from a group of shifting springs near ...

London rang in the New Year with a pyrotechnic display along the River Thames, as Big Ben struck midnight. Visitors came from ...

The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics for any river in the world. Scientists have estimated that 94,000 microplastics per second flow down the river in places.

in the podcast she reveals five objects found on the Thames foreshore that tell a story about the river and the people who live on it. Here are the objects. This fragment almost looks like a ...

A SLIGHTLY different track this month for my river stories. Although it is still all about our very poorly, turbid, ...

The results of a test into the water quality of the River Thames are "devastating", a wild swimmer has said. Bangor University analysis, commissioned by television naturalist Steve Backshall ...

The news that two male bodies were recovered from the River Thames while the search for chemical attack suspect Abdul Ezedi was under way could easily have been overlooked. On average, 25 bodies ...

“I’m using the River Thames as a vehicle to explore contemporary ritual in England today,” says photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews about her photobook Thames Log. Published by Loose Joints, the series ...