7 h. ago London’s infamous ‘Wet Wipe Island’ finally cleared of 5 million wipes

Some 114 tonnes of material, including towels, scarves, trousers and even a set of false teeth, have now been removed

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8 h. ago London’s infamous ‘Wet Wipe Island’ finally cleared of five million wipes

London’s infamous ‘Wet Wipe Island’ finally cleared of five million wipes  The Independent

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8 h. ago Five million wet wipes cleared from disgusting 'island' in Thames — as false teeth and trousers also found

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London

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9 h. ago The end of Wet Wipe Island: Diggers clear 5MILLION wipes after 114

Congealed rubbish equivalent to around five million wet wipes has been cleared from the river banks  as a major project to remove it reaches completion.

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11 h. ago Around 5m wet wipes cleared from Thames as work to remove ‘island’ completed

Diggers scooped up wipes, towels, scarves, trousers, a car’s engine timing belt and a set of false teeth from the river foreshore in west London.

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5 d. ago Is THIS Britain's loneliest BnB? Inside seaside cottage from BBC drama just steps from the beach... but you won't have to worry about people taking your sun lounger

The Old Rectory, the only building on Rhossili Bay, looks straight out onto Worms Head Island and plays a starring role in the finale of the BBC's new thriller The Guest.

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7 d. ago I went to Mauritius, the spectacularly beautiful island paradise perfect for sun

Green is a colour unfairly associated with jealousy. But as your plane banks through speckled tropical clouds and the lush island paradise below finally comes into view, you soon come to realise something: green as it may be, Mauritius is an island nation defined by its happiness and its richness. By its life.

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1 week ago 'I went to Ibiza and found out what the party isle really makes of its Final Boss'

Jack Kay quickly became known as the Ibiza Final Boss after being filmed dancing on the White Island and his stock continues to rise in the UK

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1 week ago Love Island winner shares relationship update weeks after final

Love Island star Cach Mercer has issued a update on his relationship with Toni Laites just weeks after the winning the 2025 series

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2 w. ago Love Island's Shakira and Harry put on romantic display in adorable wedding day snaps

Love Island finalists Shakira Khan and Harry Cooksley posed for a couple of adorable snaps as they attended a wedding just weeks after leaving the famous villa

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2 w. ago London’s ‘wet wipe island’ gets bulldozed in historic Thames clean

London’s ‘wet wipe island’ gets bulldozed in historic Thames clean-up operation  ABC News

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2 w. ago Hope, joy, absurdity and marvel: there is so much more to our world story than loss

Amid environmental tragedy, a hidden world of curiosity and wonder still exists. And in this, says Natalie Kyriacou, we can find glimmers of hopeThe last great auk, it is said, was strangled unceremoniously in its sleep in 1844. Plump and penguin-like, the great auk had survived for hundreds of thousands of years until humans discovered the utility of its soft down feathers, eggs and meat. Great auks mate for life, and it was on Eldey island in Iceland where the final pair on Earth met their fate at the hands of three fishermen who fell upon them.“I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him,” said the man who killed the last of a species. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Love Islanders 'didn't get along for weeks' finalists say as they blast 'villain' edit

The three Love Island finalists have spoken out about their time on the ITV dating show and how they were made to 'look like villains' in a swipe at the editing

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2 w. ago Love Island finalists reveal Islanders 'didn't get along for WEEKS' as they take swipe at ITV show's edit: 'We constantly felt like villains'

Last month fans watched as the 12th series of the dating show came to an end as Maya Jama announced Toni Laites and Cach Mercer were this year's winners.

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3 w. ago What I learnt at Wet Wipe Island, the landmark London deserves

What I learnt at Wet Wipe Island, the landmark London deserves  The Times

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4 w. ago Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark | The Thames

Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark | The Thames  The Guardian

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4 w. ago Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark

Welcome to ‘Wet Wipe Island’: my day at London’s grimmest new landmark  The Guardian

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4 w. ago TOWIE's James Lock unrecognisable after dramatic transformation with Ibiza Final Boss

Former The Only Way Is Essex star James Lock debuted a very different look as he partied with the Ibiza Final Boss on the party island, leaving his pals in fits of laughter

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4 w. ago Bonnie Blue and 'nervous' Ibiza Final Boss meet up as she makes wild confession

Bonnie Blue has flown over to the Spanish party island to meet viral raver Ibiza Final Boss after reaching out to him on Instagram and she has now revealed exactly what the encounter was like.

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last month Ibiza Final Boss 'nervously' meets Bonnie Blue as she admits 'It was shortest video yet'

Bonnie Blue has met viral sensation Ibiza Final Boss in an awkward encounter on the party island, with the model admitting that the hulking Geordie was 'nervous'

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