If the number of closures keeps being over 50 every year we will not be able to maintain it properly,” warned David Wilkes, who was the Environment Agency’s manager for the Thames Barrier ...

The Thames Barrier took 8 years to build, and it became fully operational in 1984 – with the late Queen Elizabeth II presiding over its official opening. Source: Thames Clippers When it opened ...

Now on its 40th anniversary, there are questions over that ... a 15-year programme to raise the flood walls that line both sides of the Thames river to the east of the barrier through Kent and ...

PLANS to replace the Thames Barrier to protect the capital from the increased risk of global warming are to be delayed by 40 years. The Environment Agency said today it believes the existing ...

2012 is set to become the wettest on record in the UK, forecasters said Experts worried extra rainfall upstream and high tide could flood the capital Gates closed this morning for first time since ...

Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of London’s Thames Barrier, inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on May 8, 1984, steadfastly protecting the capital for over four ... for 25 years, told the ...

Are the Thames’ flood defences still up to the ... The agency also says the figures in the strategy “should be taken as an average over time”. This means closing the barrier 50 times in any one year ...

Having witnessed and worked on the Thames Barrier’s opening ... added that despite the success in protecting London over the past 40 years, the Environment Agency “will not rest on our ...

Hismet Smakaj has been praised for his bravery after he entered the water near Thames Barrier Park in East London to pull the seven-year-old to ... California concerns over new $2.7B reservoir ...

Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of London’s Thames Barrier, inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on May 8, 1984, steadfastly protecting the capital for over four decades ... who has worked there for ...