This particular shard, though, is from much closer to home. It’s made of clay dug in the Thames Estuary. Pins are found with surprising abundance in the river. These ones were individually hand ...

The tragedy comes after a pod of nine pilot whales lost their way yesterday and ended up stranded on mudflats in the Swale ...

And Southend-on-Sea provided the perfect location for a pier to stroll along and enjoy the air because of the vast shallow mud flats which ... into the Thames Estuary, and is a well loved and ...