Thameside

This week, Richard Desmond can reflect on a record £525m turnover at his Daily Express to Channel 5 Northern & Shell empire while sitting in his vast Thameside office, sipping tea from china branded with his company's logo.

How proprietors are taking over the biggest media companies in the UK 2011

This week, Richard Desmond can reflect on a record £525m turnover at his Daily Express to Channel 5 Northern & Shell empire while sitting in his vast Thameside office, sipping tea from china branded with his company's logo.

How proprietors are taking over the biggest media companies in the UK 2011

Similar fast-transport schemes exist elsewhere but Kent Thameside has the most innovative approach: the councils examined the main reasons people chose not to take buses – punctuality, journey-time reliability and lack of information – and designed a system that attempted to eliminate them.

Really getting somewhere Christian Wolmar 2010

On schedule: Kent's award-winning busesFastrack, a pioneering £2bn rapid-transport scheme in Kent Thameside was born out of a necessity to provide a joined-up and highly efficient public transport system in an area where development was threatening to overwhelm the existing road system.

Really getting somewhere Christian Wolmar 2010

Although Kent Thameside currently has a relatively small population of 187,000, the intention is to create 50,000 new jobs and build 25,000 new homes over the next 20 to 30 years.

Really getting somewhere Christian Wolmar 2010

Kent Thameside strategic transport programme, £23m

Government shelves Labour projects worth £10.5bn and Mark Tran 2010

In the confusion, the doxy had vanished and it was not until the stevedore had been subdued that the police noticed the blood, dripping from a pair of legs, swinging gently in the Thameside breeze.

The Case Of The Limehouse Golem 2010

By then most steamships were using the Victoria Docks, which were to be used by the last of the Thameside shipbuilders, Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company, for fitting-out ships, until they ceased business in 1912.

Early Steam Ships and the City Canal M 2008

Wesley Kerr, Chair of the HLF Committee for London, said: The London Committee is thrilled that this unique part of our city's heritage, including some of the finest and largest steam engines in existence, housed in cathedral-sized buildings on an inspiring Thameside site, is to be fully restored and opened to all.

Crossness today M 2008

And as such, I am overriding all Calls for Beer with a Call for Rum and/or Ale, at the Old Thameside Inn, from sixish onwards.

Call for Rum. 2008