A huge 'wet wipe island' in the River Thames will soon disappear as diggers have pulled 114 tonnes of waste out of the water.
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.
Last month, diggers began dredging up muddy waste that had settled along a 250-metre stretch of the foreshore near Hammersmith Bridge in west London.
The two eight-tonne excavators scooped out the wet wipes from the riverbed, also digging up towels, scarves, trousers, a car's engine timing belt and a set of false teeth along the way.
The island, which was about the size of two tennis courts and up to one metre deep in places, is thought to have changed the course of the river and potentially harmed nearby aquatic wildlife and ecology.
