With public health very much at the top of the agenda at the moment, we look back on the life and times of Joseph Bazalgette, the civil engineer who saved London from cholera. Written by Nick Smith If ...

Debt-laden Thames Water, the country’s biggest water company, is trying to stave off “special administration” (a form of ...

Soon after the new Palace of Westminster was opened by Queen Victoria more than 160 years ago, London suffered a sweltering hot summer.

Matthew Parris hears from Labour peer Lord Adonis why Joseph Bazalgette, the Victorian engineer, has his nomination as a Great Life. Bazalgette, the grandson of a French immigrant who made a ...