The Environment Agency are releasing 750 fish into south-east London rivers today and tomorrow (we do hope they’ve got scarves and little flipper mittens on). Chub and dace are going into the Pool and Ravensbourne, and crucian carp and tench are finding a new home …
Image / Lady Vervaine Seems it was a little premature to champion the cleanliness of the Thames: an inquiry is underway to find out just how 20,000 tonnes of raw sewage was accidentally pumped into the river. The leak happened at the Mogden treatment plant …
Photo by Alexei 322 Londoners won’t need to get their wellies out until at least 2070, according to a new report from the Environment Agency. The Thames Barrier was built to protect the city from flooding and was thought to need replacing around 2030. Designers …
Oh now here’s an emotive issue. Londonist charged at this story, all spluttering indignation…and then promptly changed our minds. It’s about Thames lock-keepers and their chi-chi little cottages. The Environment Agency is to sell off 10 of them, and let out 12 others: all in …
19. Freakish Falls! During the August of 1920 in Woodford, stones poured from the sky for three consecutive days without explanation. Four years later at Eltham, Plumstead, Woolwich and Shooters Hill a great ice storm battered the area, despite the afternoon being the hottest for …
…the way that apparently a lot of people have as this photo has been doing the rounds. And no, it is not part of this week’s ‘Touch Up London’ competition. It is, rather, one of the publicity shots for the much touted $30 million film, …
200 years of keeping the bastards at bay have all come to naught – the salmon are back: Salmon have been introduced to the River Thames after experts declared the water clean enough for the fish to breed – after almost 200 years. The young …
We have a healthy respect for Jaws, but the likelihood of a Great White swimming down the Thames is about as likely as spotting a whale in that muck. Alligator though… there’s a concept we can get in a panic about. We have toilets and …
The Olympic site may be suffering from a £100,000 weed problem. And it’s nothing to do with the familiar cannabinoid odours wafting in from Roman Road on the westerly breeze. An invasive plant species known as Japanese knotweed is apparently entrenched in the area, and …
The Environment Agency has announced that our beloved Thames Water was, last year, fined for pollution more than any other firm in England and Wales. Well done Thames Water! In case you were wondering, the exact amount was £128,000 over four different incidents, that’s more …
Britain’s contingency plan for an outbreak of bird flu in the country is being tested today and tomorrow with a real-time simulation of an infection. Exercise Hawthorn uses hundreds of volunteers to simulate a bird flu outbreak from three days into the crisis. The DEFRA-run …
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