Yokozunas Hoshoryu during the opening ceremony ahead of The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on October 15, 2025. London's Royal Albert Hall has swapped violins for loincloths ...

Touching a link to the distant past is unexpectedly electrifying. An hour earlier, I would not have even noticed this piece of rubble on the riverbed. But at the start of Thames Explorer Trust’s In ...

A colossal 100-tonne “fatberg” has been successfully cleared from a west London sewer, Thames Water has revealed. The utility firm confirmed a specialist team spent over a month removing the massive ...

Thames Water has shared stomach–churning photos of an enormous 'fatberg' recovered from a sewer in Feltham. Weighing in at 100 tonnes, the congealed mass of wet wipes, fat, oil, and grease is the ...

Thames Waters says the "fatberg" weighed the equivalent weight of eight double-decker buses A blockage estimated to be around 100 tonnes has been cleared from a west London sewer. Thames Water said a ...

A group of Thames Water lenders has put forward a new rescue deal for the struggling supplier pledging an extra £1 billion in investment and plans to write off around a third of the firm’s near-£20 ...

Today’s proposal from the London & Valley Water consortium, a group including some of the world’s largest financial institutions and investors in the UK infrastructure sector, aims to deliver £5.4 ...

London & Valley Water hope to eventually float Thames Water on the stock market after turning around the firm’s fortunes. A group of Thames Water lenders has put forward a new rescue deal for the ...

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