New Year’s Eve plans have been left in tatters for thousands after a train tunnel flooded under the River Thames in London. Eurostar and Southeastern have been forced to cancel services to and ...
Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London's history, this documentary reveals the shocking events that unfolded during the fateful ...
Getty Images Thames Water said its £4.5bn Thames Tideway Tunnel, aimed at capturing untreated ... in order to save it from flooding towns. While 2022 was dry, with London declared to be in ...
Dec. 30 (UPI) --Thousands of travelers seeking to take the cross-channel Eurostar train from Britain to continental Europe were stranded in London on Saturday due to flooding in a tunnel in ...
The 14 mile project was first proposed in 2009, and would connect Kent and Essex through a road and tunnel beneath the River Thames to reduce congestion. Politics Live: Sunak makes 'fire and ...
Campaigners are renewing calls for a new Lower Thames Crossing to be built after successive closures of the Dartford Tunnel left drivers facing traffic chaos this week. One of the Dartford Tunnel ...
The Thames then was an open sewer as the drainage system in London was primitive or non-existent. The tunnel flooded regularly and men died. Work was abandoned for seven years; it finally opened ...
Thames Water says it "let customers ... Roads in the capital were closed because of the flooding, including the Blackwall Tunnel, the A12 and parts of the North Circular. Eight Tube stations ...
River levels are rising on the Thames and its tributary channels in Oxford following recent heavy rainfall. Therefore, flooding of low lying land and roads is expected this afternoon. “ ...
A water company said it would spend £2.5m protecting a village from future flooding from a sewer. Thames Water said the money would be spent in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, where it had ...
There have been seven notable flooding events since the start of the 21st century, although this figure is likely to rise as the world warms. Some of the most devasting floods in the UK include: 1.