A property tycoon has been found guilty of a £3.5m fraud over claims he sold houseboats on a stretch of the river Thames that could not be lived in. Myck Djurberg, 64, was convicted on Tuesday (19 March 2024) at Kingston Crown Court in London for fraudulently selling houseboats without appropriate planning permission. Djurberg purchased […]
New and improved climate models have illustrated the heightened risk of flooding from a warming climate and rising sea levels. This, says the Environment Agency, is why it needs to raise defences upstream of the Thames Barrier in inner London by 2050, 15 years earlier than it originally thought. It’s looking to protect more than […]
Chiswick RNLI and three other Thames RNLI stations, which were established following the tragic sinking of the Marchioness where 51 people drowned, are celebrating 20 years of service this month. The judge in the inquiry into the Marchioness disaster recommended that the tidal Thames needed a dedicated search and rescue service. The RNLI stepped in […]