River Thames News
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Queen Elizabeth II marked 60 years since her coronation with a service in London’s Westminster Abbey, where she was crowned, underlining her religious dedication in her role as U.K. head of state.
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Tokyo, the world’s most populated metropolis, is building defenses for the possibility of a flood in the next 200 years that could dwarf the damage superstorm Sandy wrought on the U.S. East Coast.
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Canary Wharf Group Plc and Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund won local-government approval to construct offices and 877 homes in eight buildings at the site of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s U.K. headquarters near the London Eye Ferris wheel on the River Thames.
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London’s Battersea Power Station site has attracted buyers who have reserved about 95 percent of apartments and townhouses worth about 681 million pounds ($1 billion) since January, according to the developer.
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Canary Wharf Group Plc and Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund won planners’ support to build 877 homes and about 76,000 square meters (820,000 square feet) of offices at the site of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s London headquarters on the banks of the River Thames.
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Brendan McDonagh traveled to Madrid last month brandishing a map with about 120 hotels. Unlike other visitors to the Spanish capital, they were all in Ireland.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson plans to create a village that floats on the River Thames as the U.K. capital strives to develop derelict industrial sites on the city’s eastern waterfront.
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Quintain Estates & Development Plc rose the most since December 2010 after a Hong Kong investor agreed to provide 450 million pounds ($706 million) to help the company develop Greenwich Peninsula, close to London’s Canary Wharf financial district.
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In East London's Shoreditch, an area once better known for poverty, the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Victorian gin epidemic, it's now tech that rules the streets.
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Oxford beat Cambridge by a length and a half in the 159th university Boat Race on the River Thames in London, a year after the event was disrupted by a protester.
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