A lobby group is using Heathrow’s 60th anniversary as a civilian airport to suggest that it should be retired and replaced by a new-build airport on an island in the Thames estuary.

Antony Worrall Thompson is leaving historic Rivermead Cottages in Shiplake near Henley.
The celebrity chef has put the early 19th-century long building in Mill Lane up for sale and is moving to a larger property nearby. The row of cottages, built for workers at Shiplake Mill, was purchased by his grandfather and gradually turned into […]

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PLANNING inspectors will decide if London's drought crisis can be solved by taking drinking water from the Thames.

Thames Water, London's main supplier, is at odds with the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, over plans for a desalination plant in Beckton.

Planners launched a Government inquiry into the proposals, which would supply water to residents in Waltham Forest, Redbridge and Newham, on Tuesday.
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The original planning application for the £22m plant, capable of suppling 150 million litres per day of clean drinking water, was approved by Newham Council in April.

Royal Navy blows up WWII mine in Thames Estuary

A public inquiry into plans for Britains first desalination plant began today, after the mayor of London blocked the scheme on environmental grounds.

Young's is to close its Wandworth brewery near the confluence of the River Thames and River Wandle next autumn. There has been a brewery on the site alongside the River Wandle since 1581. Once coal and malt arrived by barge from Londons docks and was unloaded in the Wandle mouth.

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Ever heard of the London stone? The mysterious relic has survived the Romans, the Blitz, even 1960s planners - and is set to move again. Sean Coughlan reports.