The 2025 TCS London Marathon takes place on Sunday, April 27th, marking its 45th year since the inaugural event in 1981.

Welsh rock band The Alarm followed in the footsteps of their friends U2, rising out of the fertile late 70s UK post punk ...

Dire Straits were one of the most unlikely success stories of the 80s, making 1985’s world-beating Brothers In Arms album before guitarist and leader Mark Knopfler ended the band at the height of ...

After 18 years of putting on live jazz at the Royal British Legion premises, Marlow Jazz Club has had to look for a new permanent venue. The ...

How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s ...

Bass guitarist Nick Chaplin talks past hatred for the band, a potential new record and how he feels about the term ‘pioneer’ being used to describe them ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water has estimated the cost of upgrading its flagship Oxford sewage works has risen from £40mn to ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The MP for Didcot and Wantage has called for Thames Water to explain why the cost of upgrading its Oxford sewage works has risen to £435m ...

The girl and boy have not been seen or made contact with their loved ones for four days now, and Thames Valley Police are ...

FOR more than five years, the Apple iPad lay buried in the Thames riverbed, a short distance from the O2 Arena. The battered device, water-damaged and caked in mud, was discovered by a police ...

‘Especially with these huge container ships coming down the Thames. We’ve had boats go into the pier!’ The ship’s masts still stick out of the water (Picture: Getty) Daniel Cowan, leader ...

Stefan Wermuth / Reuters / Landov The Thames has been synonymous with rowing for almost three centuries. In August 1715, half a dozen “watermen”—oarsmen who ferried passengers on the river ...