Here's Vicki Barker in London. VICKI BARKER, BYLINE: Seventy-year-old Paul Gunn (ph), an amateur rower, stands on the north bank of the Thames, gazing bemusedly at Hammersmith Bridge. PAUL GUNN ...

By Megan Specia LONDON — With temperatures soaring in London on Monday, the aging and crumbling Hammersmith ... bridge, eating strawberries and sharing a large bottle of water. They said that ...

The wood and wrought iron structure is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world Hammersmith Bridge has ... sun and keep the bridge open, with London expected to see highs of 35C (95F ...

She said the continued closure of the bridge made "the UK the subject of mockery around the globe". The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham said: "We have been told by the government to pay an ...

The taskforce was set up by the Department for Transport (DfT) last month to work with bodies like Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which owns the bridge, and Transport for London (TfL).

Hammersmith Bridge has been closed for people’s safety (Picture: Getty) They said government cuts to Transport for London have left them unable to complete repairs. The bridge links Barnes to ...

Hammersmith Bridge in west London is nowhere ready to reopen (Picture: Belinda Jiao/Reuters) Sarah Olney, a Lib Dem MP for Richmond Park, said the failure to commit to the bridge repairs ...

London's Hammersmith Bridge will finally reopen next week five years after it was closed on safety grounds but only to cyclists with motorists still being strictly prohibited from driving across ...

The 138-year-old bridge linking Hammersmith with Barnes, in south-west London, closed to motor vehicles when cracks appeared ...

With temperatures set to soar above 35 degrees next week, authorities have wrapped Hammersmith Bridge in giant pieces of foil to stop it from overheating. The 135-year-old structure is currently ...