The Latest Breaking News from River Thames

Police watchdog says the man in his early 40s died in hospital

Metropolitan Police officers attended the scene on Saturday following reports of a man armed with a screwdriver who was shouting before he was Tasered and fell into the Thames

Officers were called to reports a man, in his 40s, was armed with a screwdriver and shouting at Chelsea Bridge

The 11 barges will be used to transport waste from central London on the River Thames

The first in a series of photo essays looking at a year in the life of the great River Thames. Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, takes a look at the many sides and seasons of the waterway

Eight Greenpeace activists who blocked a Russian oil tanker in the River Thames have been arrested.

It is one year since Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, who was known as Jimi, died after jumping into the River Thames to save a woman.

The floating home on Taggs Island has tropical gardens and a large roof terrace.

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 after being declared “biologically dead” by scientists at London’s Natural History Museum. Yet despite this…

Specialist officers launched hunt after dark on Thursday

Move comes amid concern quality of England’s waterways could pose risk to wild swimmers