There, among a proliferation of handsome pictures of boats upon the Thames that are his forte, Terry showed me the first oil painting that he did at art school – an accomplished still life in the ...

London is awash with exhibitions celebrating the past – what can figures like Leigh Bowery and Peter Hujar teach young ...

Ian Nairn, the architecture critic, achieved fame in 1955, aged 25, when an edition of the Architectural Review was devoted to an essay by him. He often appeared on television in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

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She’s best known for 1983 hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which shows off her husky tones, but she also had other hits, including “Holding Out for a Hero.” With three Grammy nods to ...

It was a pastoral area until it was proclaimed a village in 1851. The Jackson brothers named the district after Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex in England when it was established in 1857.

Rachel Reeves could be forced to nationalise Thames Water just two days before the Spring Statement in a move threatening to throw her spending plans into disarray. The Treasury is reportedly ...

The segregated prison population has soared from 4% in 1983 to over 35% in 2023, more than a third of all inmates. “In some ways, we are unconsciously establishing two prisons.” The report ...

Police have found a body in the River Thames nearly a month after a University of Oxford student vanished in the early hours of the morning. Benedict, known as Ben, was reported missing on Sunday ...

Rat lungworm parasite. Photo / Centres for Disease Control and Prevention A 30-year-old New England woman’s symptoms started with a burning sensation in her feet. Over the following two days ...

Thames Water has received a preliminary 7 billion pound ($8.86 billion) bid from Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure for a majority stake, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hong Kong’s CK Infrastructure has made a preliminary £7bn bid to take a majority stake in Thames Water ...