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Labour’s Lord Foulkes of Cumnock claims ‘escalating’ hotel costs are ‘using up all’ of peers’ tax-free allowances

The question was asked in relation to Thames Water’s abstraction plans at Teddington Weir

Every Friday, volunteers gather on the Albert Embankment at the River Thames in London to lovingly retouch thousands of red hearts inscribed on a Portland stone wall directly opposite the Houses of Parliament. Each heart is dedicated to a British victim of COVID. It is a deeply social space –…

Fossils and geology stretching back millions of years are revealed on this fascinating route by river mudflats and ancient woods

Last week, I found myself under the A12 in Redbridge, wading through a muddy Thames tributary, in search of European eels. With me were two conservationists from ZSL – the organisation I lead – checking eel traps along eel migratory routes, as cars rumbled over the bridge above us.

It can be revealed that both boreholes of the Silvertown Tunnel are now complete, after a Green politician spotted the tunnel boring machine on the north bank of the Thames

From Earlswood to Walton-on-Thames, these commuter towns are among the best in Surrey — and proving popular with London leavers

Will Nesbitt bought his boat in 1998 and turned it into a “modern apartment” in a renovation that has taken 25 years. Now, he has listed it for sale for £700,000.

The city is cleaning up the river in time for the Olympic Games next year