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Eau de Thames: Beckton desalination plant for drinking water comes back on stream

Desalination plant will be in use next year to help with London’s water supplies

Evening Standard

Girlfriend watches in horror as boyfriend plunges to death from bridge on Facetime call

James East had been on a night out in the Kingston area of London, when he attempted to sit on a walled area of a bridge, before plunging into the river Thames below

Daily Mirror

Horrified girlfriend watches man fall to his death over FaceTime while on night out

James East sat on a walled area of a bridge in Kingston, London, but misjudged his seating position and fell backwards. He hit his head and fell in the River Thames while on the phone with his girlfriend

Daily Mirror

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Welshman dies after falling into the River Thames while facetiming his girlfriend on family birthday night out

The tragic accident happened when James East was on a night out and he had sat down for a rest

Wales Online

Watchdog facing legal action over death of Black man tasered on Chelsea Bridge

Oladeji Omishore died in June after falling into River Thames

The Independent UK

Drivers face disruptions as key Silvertown Tunnel works begin

Drivers on Monday suffered rush hour misery as months-long road restrictions began near a key Thames crossing caused by the construction of the Silvertown tunnel.

Evening Standard

A year on the River Thames, part two – in pictures

The second part of Jill Mead’s look at a year in the life of the great River Thames over the course of a hot dry summer takes in the Jubilee, Henley Regatta, Swan Upping and the passing of the Queen

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Man admits sexual assault of woman in queue for Queen’s lying in state

Adeshina Adio, 20, from south-east London, was arrested after jumping into Thames to evade police

The Guardian - UK

London’s spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration to return after Covid hiatus

More than 100,000 tickets to go on sale later this month

Evening Standard

Tour of UK's wettest roads includes waterlogged London street where cars float away

Holy Island Causeway, the Strood, Thames Embankment, Isle of Athelney and Bosham have all been featured in a run down of the best and most watery roads in the UK

Daily Mirror

Self-driving ferries could be coming to the Thames soon

Stockholm has already signed up to bring the autonomous ferries to its waterways, while Paris has been eyeing them for the Olympics

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan accused of ‘greenwashing’ his policies with new ‘Clean Air’ podcast launch

Tunnelling work on the £2bn Silvertown tunnel under the Thames began earlier this month

Evening Standard

‘Lady in the Thames’: New picture may hold clue to solving 45-year-old mystery

Missing person’s charity Locate International worked with artist Hew Morrison to create the image from photographs taken at the scene

Evening Standard

Family of man who fell in Thames found out he was Tasered by seeing 'horrific' clip online

Oladeji Omishore's family say police had given the impression that he had entered the water on his own “volition", but they found out online that he had been Tasered by officers on a bridge

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The Gretchen Question – fantastic time-hopping cast deliver a climate cautionary tale

Exquisitely staged on the banks of the Thames, with a fantastic ensemble cast this ambitious and inquisitive production uses its natural surroundings to remind us of everything we stand to lose

The Guardian - UK

Experience: I found a human bone in the Thames

I didn’t know if it belonged to a murder victim. I had to report it

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The monarchy is Britain’s most successful (re)invention

All week, a river of mourners has queued for hours alongside the banks of the Thames in London to pay their respects to their longest-reigning monarch as she lies in state in Westminster Hall. Tens of thousands also lined the narrow streets of Edinburgh to gaze on the hearse bearing…

Irish Mirror

Two women allegedly sexually assaulted in queue to see Queen's coffin

The 19-year-old, who had been queuing to see the Queen too, is said to have leapt into the River Thames in an attempt to escape police officers

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Wales Online

Women ‘sexually assaulted in queue to see Queen's coffin’

Adio Adeshine allegedly tried to enter the River Thames to escape from police but was arrested

The Independent UK

Silent crowds file past the coffin of the only British monarch most have known

Emotional moment for those who have queued for hours along the Thames to pay their final respects to the Queen.

ABC News

Queue snakes through London as people wait to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state

If you want to pay your final, personal respects to the Queen, you have to join an hours-long queue.

Evening Standard

Meet The People First In Line To View The Queen’s Coffin

The Queen is the greatest monarch the world has ever seen and I could not pass up a chance to honour her life," said David Carlson. The 75-year-old army veteran, from Wandsworth, was among the thousands queuing on Wednesday morning to visit the Queen's coffin as it lies in state.…

Liverpool Echo

BBC to livestream The Queen's lying in state for those unable to travel to London

Thousands of people are expected to brave a wait on the bank of the Thames to pay their respects to the Queen

The Independent UK

A right royal queue: Thousands brave long wait for Queen’s lying in state

The line is expected to stretch four miles up the Thames before the doors of Westminster Hall open at 5pm on Wednesday.

Daily Mirror

'Waiting 48 hours isn't a big deal': Life in queue to see the Queen's coffin

A handful of mourners this afternoon waited on the bank of the Thames ahead of the Queen's lying-in-state, which will start at 5pm on Wednesday in Westminster

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