Thames Water Fined For Poor ServiceVideo production company has made a documentary about this subject.A video production company called Dragonfly Productions, who are based in London, have made a video about this subject. You can visit their website here;http://www.dragonflyproductions.co.uk
A beautifully-produced volume that fits snugly into the category of "books as lovely things", this is the latest in a recent trend for celebrating those blessed empty bits of these teeming isles. Britain &Ireland's Best Wild Places (Allen Lane, 25) is by Christopher Somerville, of Coast fame, and shows the...
THE Queen is to use water power from the Thames to cut soaring fuel bills at Windsor Castle. The pounds 1million eco-friendly scheme will produce 1.4 million kilowatt hours of "green" electricity each year - enough to power 300 ordinary homes. Planning...
A baby who was pronounced dead after falling into the Thames was being treated in hospital last night after medics detected a faint heartbeat. The girl, thought to be about 18 months old, is in a critical condition after falling into the river near Goring in Oxfordshire...
A cult Japanese series in which Spandex-clad contestants in hard hats try to hurl themselves though a series of holes in a wall is being adapted for the BBC. Human Tetris, which is one section of the hit Japanese show Tunnels no minnasan no okage deshita, has...
Vox Pop In a week when Robert Redford announced his engagement at the age of 71, we asked passers-by outside St Paul's Cathedral, site of many a historic wedding, whether there was an age at which marriage was no longer appropriate INTERVIEWS BY SIANA...
Tomorrow a FTSE 250 company called Homeserve will defy gravity and report a whopping 22 per cent rise in pre-tax profit for the year to March of about 85 million on revenues up to around 592 million. It's not a business you are likely to have heard...
Business News IN BRIEF *Ofwat, the water regulator, has reduced a fine levied on Thames Water to 9.7m after the supplier of London's water appealed a previous penalty over misreporting information and poor customer service. The regulator slapped Thames with a 12.5m fine last year after it...
Business News IN BRIEF *Ofwat, the water regulator, has reduced a fine levied on Thames Water to 9.7m after the supplier of London's water appealed against a previous penalty over misreporting information and poor customer service. The regulator slapped Thames with a 12.5m fine last year after...
Home News IN BRIEF *Seahorses have been found living and possibly breeding in the river Thames, a development that scientists believe is testament to the river's improved water quality over recent decades. Marine biologists have found several specimens of the short-snouted seahorse as far upstream as Dagenham...
premier league Painful loss gives 'devastated' Hodgson that sinking feeling Fulham 1 Healy (74) Sunderland 3 Collins (45), Chopra (54), Jones (76) Substitutes: Fulham: Healy for Andreasen (57), Dempsey for Stalteri (62), Bouazza for Kamara (72). Sunderland: Chopra for Edwards (h-t), Leadbitter...
Should restaurateurs charge for tap water? Juliette Banner thinks so. And her initiative has already raised Pounds 10,000 for charity projects in the developing world. By Simon Usborne Sitting in her north London restaurant, Juliette Banner pours herself a glass of what is probably the most expensive...
Parties It's not often you can say of a City of London bash that "the 10- year-old Somerset cider apple brandy was flowing", but there was no tipple more appropriate at the Feast of Albion, a 1,000-a-head charity banquet at the Guildhall offering ingredients fished, foraged, pastured...
Peter Fraenkel, one of Britain's most respected pioneers of renewable energy, has been working on the idea behind the new tidal turbine for longer than 30 years and originally used the technology on the River Nile. Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Dr Fraenkel joined the Intermediate Technology...
Thames Water has appointed CH2M HILL as programmemanager for the Thames Tideway Tunnel scheme -- to help deliver the'super-sewer' that will prevent overflows from London's sewers entering theRiver Thames. The project will involve the construction of London's deepest ever tunnel-- the Thames Tunnel -- up to 80 metres beneath ground...
Toh Shimazaki has produced an orderly and warm extension to a venerable London rowing institution, writes James Pallister. Putney Embankment on a Sunday morning is a busy place. While the rest of London is lolling in bed, the south bank of the Thames is bustling with lycra-clad rowers. A third...
LONDON AFP — London Mayor Ken Livingstone on Tuesday launched a blitz against bottled mineral water, urging restaurant customers in the British capital to ask for tap water to help the environment. Livingstone said tap water was not only cheaper but also comes without the heavy carbon footprint...
Robin Wilson visits the Flood and Filter Houses Matthew Butcher: Studies for the Filter House. Until 29 February at the Bartlett Gallery, London WC1 Architect Matthew Butcher constructs an elaborate Utopian fiction about the possible transformation of the Thames Estuary in Studies for the Filter House, an exhibition currently on...
Wireless News02-12-2008Fibre Network Company Geo Purchased by Alchemy for 62mWIRELESS NEWS-February 12, 2008-Fibre Network Company Geo Purchased by Alchemy for 62m C2008 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Geo, a provider of optical fibre networks, announced that it has been sold by the Hutchison Whampoa Group to the Alchemy Investment Plan...
Fishing Lines You have to feel a little sorry for Robert Townsend. He has just caught the biggest perch ever seen in the UK - but it looks extremely unlikely that he will be acknowledged as the new world, European and British record-holder. Townsend,...
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