A project to build the UK’s largest road tunnel has been granted £590m by the government. Constructing the Lower Thames Crossing, linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, will cost an estimated £10bn. Plans for the 14.5-mile (23km) route were approved in March after a 16-year process that has already cost £1.2bn. Chancellor Rachel...
Thames Water has suffered a major setback in its attempt to secure its future after US private equity giant KKR pulled out of plans to buy the company. KKR had been selected as the preferred partner to inject £4bn of much-needed cash into the UK’s biggest water company. The setback increases the possibility that the...
A body has been found in the search for a girl missing in the River Thames in Kent. Police were called at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns were raised for two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road in Gravesend. Emergency services attended the scene, where a boy was retrieved from...
A search is under way for a girl who is missing in the River Thames in Kent, police have said. Officers were called by the Port of London Authority (PLA) at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns for for the welfare of two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road, Gravesend. Emergency...
Getty Images Thames Water has been fined a record £122.7m and been told it has “let down its customers and failed to protect the environment” by the water regulator Ofwat. The company has huge debts and is struggling to fix leaks, stop sewage spills, and modernise outdated infrastructure. It serves about a quarter of the...
Thames Water has been fined £122.7m for breaching of rules relating to its wastewater operations and dividends payments. It is the biggest ever penalty issued by the water regulator Ofwat. The regulator said the fines followed its “biggest and most complex investigation” and confirmed it would be paid paid by the company and its investors,...
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was critically injured when he was struck by a car. PC Christopher Miller, 38, has been in hospital with life-threatening injuries since the incident on the B416 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire on Thursday night. Thames Valley Police arrested two men, aged 28 and...
A body found in the River Thames is that of 11-year-old Kaliyah Coa who went missing in east London last month, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. In a statement issued through the force, her family said Kaliyah had been attending a birthday party but “never returned home”. Her body was recovered at Maritime Quay on...
A body has been found in the search for 11-year-old Kaliyah Coa, who entered the River Thames in North Woolwich on 31 March, the Metropolitan Police has said. The body is yet to be formally identified, the force added, but Kaliyah’s family have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers. Read full article...
BBC An 11-year-old girl who went missing in the River Thames has been named as Kaliyah Coa. The Met Police said “a recovery mission” is now under way to find her along the Thames. Police were called at about 13:20 BST on Monday after Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered...
An 11-year-old girl who went missing after she entered the River Thames had been paddling in the water during a day off from school, according to residents living near the scene. Metropolitan Police was called to reports that the girl had entered the river close to Barge House Causeway, near London City Airport, east London,...
Thames Water has picked US private equity giant KKR as its “preferred partner” to buy the troubled water utility firm. The planned investment by KKR would help it deal with its mountain of debt, and Thames is aiming for the transaction to be completed in the second half of this year. Thames Water started to...
The largest road tunnel in the UK will be built after an £8.3bn plan was approved by the government. The Lower Thames Crossing would link Tilbury, Essex, and Gravesend in Kent by two tunnels running underneath the River Thames. National Highways hoped the road would reduce traffic at the Dartford Crossing by 20% and open...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Met Police The iPad Mini was found buried one inch under the sand of the River Thames and linked to a near fatal shooting five-and-a-half years earlier A Ming vase stolen from a Swiss museum. A shooting at a comedian’s house in Woodford, east London. The robbery of a luxury...