Associated Press - It has been expected the panel would opt for the beach town of Blackpool, famous for a 518-foot tower, or the dome site along the Thames. But the advisory panel said that Manchester, an industrial city of 440,000 in northwest England and home to …
BBC News - The launch was held on a boat on the River Thames
Reuters UK - The launch, staged on a boat on the River Thames
London Eye ferris wheel, mixed comic turns from Russell Brand and Jo Brand with pleas to help the dying in Africa from TV presenter Davina McCall and comedian Adrian Edmondson. Continued …
Oxfordshire News - Search teams looking for missing teenager Ben Halsey-Jones are now concentrating on a small area close to where he fell into the River Thames
Final plans for a £1.9m makeover of an Oxford city centre square are given the go-ahead.
Daily Telegraph - Two hotels that have been signed up will now pull out, and there will be no theatre or cross-Thames cable car. AEG will still make a return on its investment, David Campbell, who runs AEG in Europe says, but it will take a lot longer. The O2 will …
BBC Entertainment - Producer, BBC Radio 4's The Eel Pie Island Hotel Catch a train to Twickenham, west London, walk over the bridge and down to the edge of the Thames. Walk over the bridge to the tiny island of Eel Pie. Where sheds, boat-houses and picket-fenced gardens …
Bloomberg - France's interior minister, who was nominated to represent the Gaullist party in the race to succeed President Jacques Chirac, 74, is scheduled to address French Londoners from 7 p.m. at Old Billings Gate Market, a conference building by the Thames …
Press Release - 30 January 2007 - The Cabinet of Richmond upon Thames council in south west London has voted to implement groundbreaking parking charges that will see residents in controlled parking zones (CPZs) pay for their permits based on the CO2 emissions of their vehicles.
A super-casino in London will bring with it a rise in crime, a campaign group says.
An at-a-glance guide to the seven cities bidding for the right to open the UK's first 'super-casino'.
The Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Cllr Mary Reid, was joined on Tuesday 23rd January by local ward councillors and representatives of the Thames Landscape Strategy and local amenity groups to celebrate the completion of the first project in the Thames Landscape Strategy ?Putting the Thames Back into Kingston? initiative.
Reuters UK - But its 13 million residents joke their water has already been through five people before coming out of the tap, because towns upstream such as Oxford and Reading discharge their treated sewage into the River Thames
Daily Telegraph - It argues that only the casino can attract the visitors needed to justify plans for new hotels, a theatre and a cable car across the Thames. After months of speculation, the panel will announce tomorrow which city will host Britain's first regional …
A report looking at Windsor Park's suitability for international football says the stadium is a significant fire risk.
The diary of a navy sailor, depicting his first hand accounts of slave trade, is to be put on display at a museum.
Wanstead and Woodford Guardian - MOON RIVER: A plan to build a tidal-powered lunar clock has been earmarked for a site near to the Thames at the mouth of the River Lea (Aluna/L Williams/M Glean) PLANS for the world's first tidal-powered lunar clock, earmarked for a site at the mouth …
Daily Telegraph - At 1am, they took a boat on the dark waters of the Thames. It was a wet and windy night. Hogarth was then savouring his first big success ? the sweetest moment in any career. He was 34 and the previous month his engravings of A Harlot's …
Stage One of the Tour de France will take place in central London on the weekend of 6-8 July 2007.
Stage One of the Tour de France will take place in central London on the weekend of 6-8 July 2007.
A new pipeline is planned by a Berkshire water company to top up reservoirs with water from the Thames.
Environmental campaigners occupying a house belonging to an energy company are told they must leave.
The 2012 Olympics are to be the greenest games in history, organisers say.
Harrow Times - ONE year after she captured the hearts of Londoners, the Thames whale has gone on show for the first time. The 16-foot skeleton of the northern bottlenose whale that became stranded in the Thames is on show all this week. The exhibition, being held …
Police name an Oxfordshire teenager missing since falling off his bike and into the River Thames
