Britain s biggest water company, Thames Water, which supplies some 15million people, said it would announce a ban in the coming weeks as demand continues to exceed supply.
The River Darent at Eynsford, Kent. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
The Nest Collective, which stages folk music events in green spaces, is running six nature walks along chalk streams in southern England in June. Each walk is led by the collective’s founder, Sam Lee, who is a Mercury prize-nominated folk singer, and an “eco pioneer” special guest. For example, the walk along the Rivers Cray, Darent and Thames is with biologist Dr Amy-Jane Beer. The other locations are along the Chess, Stour, Colne, Kennet, Mimram and Beane; all start and end at a railway station a short distance from London. The three- to five-mile meanders include several stops for songs and talks. The collective is also taking walkers and singers on a turtle dove pilgrimage in Sussex (10-13 June) and a salmon pilgrimage in the Cairngorms (17-20 June).
National
February 14, 2021
LONDON: Parts of the River Thames froze over in London on Saturday as temperatures in Britain plummeted to sub-zero. The low temperatures, caused by a bitter chill from the Baltic, led to the river partially freezing over at Teddington Lock in south-west London. Birdlife were spotted enjoying the stretch as a temporary skating rink.
The frozen section of the river, which runs from the Thames Head in the Cotswolds through to the Thames Estuary in the North Sea is more susceptible to icing over as it is non-tidal ie water flows more slowly. The stretch has previously frozen over. In January 1963, the coldest winter for 200 years, the ice was thick enough for a man to cycle on the river near Windsor Bridge.