DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to ...

Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has ...

A ship from Bordeaux carrying the plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset. 1360: The Treaty of Brétigny ...

Greenwich Yacht Club (GYC) has announced the second edition of its Tower Lifeboat Station Yacht Race, set for June 1.

When Sean Clark lost his beloved wife of 31 years to a brain aneurysm, the widower found sanctuary in scouring the banks of ...

A preferred buyer for the UK’s largest water company would “multiply” the problems of the troubled utility firm, it has been warned at Westminster. Concerns over the selection by Thames ...

Follow live coverage of the 2025 London Marathon as 56,000 runners take on the gruelling 26.2-mile race in the sizzling sunshine.

The London Marathon has today hosted more than 56,000 runners through a 26.2 mile route that passes some of the city's most iconic landmarks - with several records also broken along the way ...

Two activists stormed onto the iconic bridge and threw bright pink powder in the air as the elite runners crossed the River Thames on ... who last ran the London Marathon in 2015 but has returned to ...

Moving across the Thames and back east into the Docklands, the Highway (south side), Narrow Street, Westferry Road, East Ferry Road, Marsh Wall, Bank Street and North Colonnade will all be closed from ...