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The Saturday Strangeness

101. Why did the catfish cross the road? If recent stirrings are anything to go by, then the invasion of snakehead fish into British waters could prove tragic. This Asian predator has such a voracious appetite that anything brave enough to get in its way …

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In Pictures: The Big Thames Cleanup

Photographer Mike King was down in Greenwich today, getting snaps of environmental volunteers cleaning up the Thames. The project, organised by Thames21, takes advantage of a low-tide + Thames-barrier-closed combo, allowing the volunteers to reach much deeper parts of the river bed. It’s not too …

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Help Give The Thames A Good Scrubbin’

Image: Astonmatt76 Can you get the morning off work on Thursday or Friday this week? If so, do so, and head along to the Isle of Dogs. The Thames21 charity is appealing for volunteers to help clean up the particularly trash-prone stretch of the river …

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Canal Allotments?

Continuing the push to get 2,012 food-growing plots of London land in time for the Olympics, British Waterways is offering up unused stretches of canal-and-riverside. We have 100 miles of waterways in the capital so that’s a lot of potential for potatoes and peas. We’re …

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Weed The Wandle

The River Wandle wends its way north from Croydon and Carshalton to join the Thames at Wandsworth. It’s a chalkstream that was hardworking in Victorian times, a sewer in the 60s and has recently been suffocating in pennywort weed. A clean up operation is on …

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Londonist’s Back Passage

43. Steelyard Passage Where? Creepy underpass beneath Cannon Street station, linking All Hallows Lane and Cousin Lane. What? Of all the byways we’ve commended in this column, none has presented such a singular collection of historic factlets and neoteric curiosities as Steelyard Passage. The Victorian …

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Free Tonight?

It’s far too nice to be inside tonight so we can’t help but suggest you mosey on down to the river and enjoy the rays. Head down to the Tate Modern and enjoy the Street Art exhibition that’s been daubing the external walls of the …

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Touch Up London #85

Here’s an idea. Build temporary cofferdams in historic stretches of the Thames so that archaeologists can really get to work. It’s amazing what you can find beneath a river that’s served a city for 2000 years. Image by M@. Got an idea for a Touch …

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Rare Seahorses Found in the Thames

Something surprising is happening in our fair river: Conservationists have found seahorses among the muck in the Thames. More exciting, the seahorses are a rare short-snouted breed — Hippocampus hippocampus, for you bio fiends out there — that usually live around the Canary Islands and …