Tickets are now on sale for the Waverley, with five trips leaving Clacton Pier in September and October. Three of the voyages involve the ever popular River Thames sailings passing under a floodlit ...

Ricky Gervais, seen here at the National Television Awards in 2022, wants to demolish his flood-prone home on the banks of the River Thames and replace it with a £5 million mansion ...

The current home, which sits on the banks of the River Thames, has been hit by flooding at least five times since 1947.

Flooding in St Neots High Street in 1947. (Image: Flooding in St Neots High Street in 1947.) In St Neots hundreds of people were trapped in their homes with no electricity, no drinking water and no ...

Ricky Gervais has reportedly been refused planning permission to demolish his existing three-bedroom home next to the River Thames, which has flooded at least five times since 1947, and replace it ...

The Office creator Ricky Gervais, 63, has lost a planning row to demolish his flood-prone home beside the River Thames, so he can replace it with a new £5 million house ...

March 1947’s floods across the Thames Valley caused major disruption and were caused by runoff from rain and snowmelt. About 1,600 homes were affected in Reading.

The report says that heavy rainfall during Storm Henk led the River Thames at Reading to reach its highest recorded levels since the major floods of 1947. Flooding also arose from the River Kennet ...