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Kingston: Body found in search for missing Thames swimmer after hottest day of year

Body found in Thames believed to be that of missing swimmer, says Met Police

Evening Standard

Londoners urged to 'come out and enjoy' seven new public spaces alongside Thames

Seven pocket parks and plazas are springing up along the riverbank

Evening Standard

Historic Thames swim cancelled in 2024 due to sewage fears

Boulter's to Bray Swim called off this year but hopes 2025 could go ahead

Evening Standard

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Water bills hike warning...and why you should never swim the Thames ...The Standard podcast

Plus! Lifeguard on danger of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s “swimmable” river plan

Evening Standard

Police searching the Thames for missing Surbiton man last seen one week ago

Police say they are ‘very concerned’ about missing Scott Thompson

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Jim Lawrence obituary

One of the last sailing barge skippers working on the Thames who later went into the sailmaking business

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state

Exclusive: Under Whitehall blueprint for water company some lenders could lose up to 40% of their money

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"We're not responsible for telling you whether you can swim in the rivers or not" - shocking message from water company polluting a world-famous river

Water company on the defensive after discharging dangerous levels of waste into the Thames

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London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames

With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimagining of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir

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"Don't even think about wild swimming here" - new study reveals shocking pollution levels in the Thames

Water company accused of discharging dangerous levels of waste into the world-famous river

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Inside an 'exceptionally rare' £3.25m time capsule house on the Thames complete with original 1970s wallpaper

The house was designed by Stout & Litchfield, who built the house featured in A Clockwork Orange

Evening Standard

Give water company board members a taste of filthy rivers

Letters: Wendy Bradley suggests a grand water downing ceremony presided over by the king for Thames Water and others. Plus a letter from Pete Lavender

The Guardian - UK

Count Binface unveils manifesto for London Mayoral election including Thames Water pledge

The satirical political candidate has unveiled a list of 24 policies - with some more extreme than others

Evening Standard

14 cultural things to do with the kids this Easter, from Terrible Thames Tours to Jurassic Encounters

From eye-boggling balloon rooms, to historical Easter egg hunts in palace grounds, there’s tonnes of brilliant London activities for children over the break

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OPINION - Will the government be forced to hold its nose and nationalise Thames Water?

In his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly referenced the '10,000-Hour Rule', based on research by Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson. Despite its subsequent controversy, the rule's premise is in someways fairly pedestrian: achieving greatness in any skill requires time and effort.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Thames Water's sewage failings leave a nasty smell

It is a rudimentary lesson of statistics that correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Otherwise, Thames Water customers might reasonably conclude that the higher their bills rise, the more sewage the company pumps into London’s rivers.

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London's great stink: Sewage flowed into capital's rivers for almost 10,000 hours last year

Thames Water customers will see a huge rise in bills this week despite sewage being pumped into London rivers for more than 9,773 hours in 2023

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Thames Water 'dumped raw sewage into river for 53 days in a row killing everything', residents claim

Residents in an Oxfordshire village have claimed the sewage has blighted their lives

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Metropolitan Police officer wades into London river to save boy, 9, from drowning

Quick-thinking officers respond to crisis just days after Thames tragedy

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‘You wouldn’t put your dog in this river’: Boat Race exposes Thames Water failings

Participants in Oxford v Cambridge competition were warned to cover wounds due to risks from E coli-polluted waterway

Evening Standard

Oxford captain says ‘too much poo in water’ after boat race loss

Research earlier this week found high levels of E. coli were in the part of the river used for the annual race

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: there is still a way to save Thames Water from financial oblivion

The formation of a company solely dedicated to providing cheap, clean water is the best way out of this debacle

The Guardian - UK

The Boat Races 2024: Cambridge do the double over Oxford, again – as it happened

Cambridge dominate both races to claim victory as the light blues win the Boat Race double for a second year in a row

The Guardian - UK

Do not enter the water: how dirty Boat Race has captured world’s attention

Sewage scandal has brought extra focus on the race and forced more caution from the rowers but enthusiasm is undimmed with Oxford favourites this year

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What my parents didn’t do in the war

Brief letters: Bletchley Park’s Fusion Room | Queen’s Park Rangers | A new Boat Race tradition | Thames Water | One-way ticket to Rwanda

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