A warning has been issued by police after children had been targeting wildlife like swans with slingshots, described as 'both cruel and illegal'.

Just over the Bucks-Oxfordshire border from Aylesbury, Thame has been hit with a hosepipe ban as Thames Water looks to avoid drought conditions after the driest spring in 100 years and warmest June ever.

Plans to redevelop a footpath along the Thames into a “foreshore park” at the Barking Riverside development have been approved.

The driver of a Renault Clio was stopped and his car was seized after he went for a 'test drive' by an Oxfordshire police station.

A recently opened alley next to the Thames offers views across the river to the Bankside, but if you turn around, you can see the same views, as artworks.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are calling on Thurrock Council to save one of the most threatened nature sites in the Thames Estuary reports the Local Democracy Buglife is urging Thurrock Council to refuse planning permission for the proposed Tilbury 3 development which the charity says would lead to the loss of Tilbury’s ashfields.