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Johnnie Matthews' wife is picking up extra shifts as he will be off work for six weeks

From the green expanses of Greenwich to the ancient nooks of dockland, stories lurk around every corner of this Thames walk to a historic pub

Brief letters: An ode to Three Men in a Boat | Ditch the duvet | Mike Davis obituary | Just the ticket

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

Decades of disrepair reversed at Marble Hill, home built on the Thames for king’s mistress and court society figure

Activists hold banners saying ‘fossil fuel war’ at British port

Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline

For 15 years outsize developments have been making a mess of the Thames – and this South Bank scheme is among the worst, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

From the Great Stink to being declared biologically dead, the Thames has always been polluted. So why is it considered one of the cleanest rivers, asks Veronica Edmonds-Brown

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…