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• OutSystems Customer ADEC Innovations Receives Environmental Leader’s Top Product of the Year Award

  22-05-2018 15:00
  The third industry recognition received for CleanChain, built with the OutSystems low-code development platformLondon, UK — 22nd May, 2018 — OutSystems congratulates customer ADEC Innovations for receiving the Top Product of the Year Award from Environmental Leader. The winning product, CleanChain, was built with the OutSystems low-code development platform. In addition, CleanChain recently received the Sustainability Product of the Year award from Business Intelligence Group and the
  
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• How TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

  25-04-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
  The change took place last September during a routine fares update to the ticket machines, and the sales of paper tickets dropped overnight by around a third compared to how many were being sold before.
  However, that was entirely intentional.The change was deliberate, intended to reduce the sale of paper tickets by encouraging people to use c
  
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• Pioneering female painter’s portraits return to their Pall Mall birthplace

  25-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When a gallery decided to put on an exhibition about one of Britain’s earliest female portrait painters, they had no idea that their galley sits on the same spot where many of the portraits were originally painted.The painter is Mary Beale, born in a Suffolk village in 1633 to parents who had an interest in art, which they clearly passed onto their daughter, who was later to forge a career as a full-time portrait painter at a time when a woman painter was almost unheard of.
  The father prob
  
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• Last few weeks to visit – Science Museum to close its domestic appliance gallery

  25-04-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large nostalgia filled space in the Science Museum will be closing soon, giving you just a few weeks to sigh with oh so many wistful memories
  The gallery, in the museum’s basement, is all about household appliances — and it’s marvellous.Who would have thought that toasters, irons, kettles, televisions and washing machines could be so fascinating to look at? Yet, these domestic appliances are at once familiar — for a radio is, after all, a radio, and a washing machine ha
  
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• UCL museums receive £2.4m funding boost

  25-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Research England has awarded the cluster of museums based at University College London (UCL) a five-year £2.4 million grant to support their work. The four museums are the Grant Museum, the Petrie Museum, the UCL Art Museum and UCL’s Pathology Museum.The UCL museums and collections comprise over 200,000 objects, which are both used for academic study and also as part of the free museums for the public to visit.
  The Grant and Petrie museums are open Tuesday through Saturday in the aft
  
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• Inside the Royal Parks nursery: From organic innovations to scented surprises

  25-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander around the centre of Hyde Park you might occasionally catch a whiff of chips and the ocean as if you’re visiting the seaside — an unexpected side effect of an organic nursery in the centre of the park.This is the huge Royal Parks plant nursery, where over a quarter of a million plants are grown every year. The nursery has also seen a lot of changes in recent years, including bringing the staffing in-house, moving to organic horticulture, and opening the nursery to appre
  
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• Royal School of Needlework launches an online archive of embroidery history

  24-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Royal School of Needlework, founded in 1872, has started putting some of its archives online, with an initial launch of the first 100 items to start the collection.
  Cushion Cover made late 19th century; Men’s embroidered waistcoat fronts c:1740s; Embroidered
  mirror frame from late 19th century – early 20th century
  The first hundred pieces offer an initial glimpse of the breadth and depth of the RSN’s treasure trove, which amounts to some 10,000 objects. These include textil
  
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• Tube station managers to strike on Friday and Saturday

  24-04-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There may be intemittent and short notice tube station closures on Friday and Saturday, as station managers who are members of the TSSA union walk out in a dispute over working conditions.Station managers who would book for a shift on Friday 26th April will not work, and that will lead to occasional station closures on Friday, and also on Saturday if station managers were due to start work late on Friday evening.
  That could affect Night Tube services on Friday night.
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• How to get the new King Charles III banknotes

  24-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The new King Charles III banknotes will start appearing in shops and banks from early June onwards, but if you want to guarantee getting your hands on the first banknotes as soon as they are released, you can.
  There are two ways of getting your hand on the first of the new banknotes.
  King Charles III banknotes (c) Bank of England
  The Postal Option
  You can send some banknotes to the Bank of England using their postal replacement banknote service, and they will ensure that your replacements will h
  
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• The City of London’s Moorfields Highwalk has reopened

  24-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Another section of the City of London’s elevated walkways — the pedways — has come back into use after being rebuilt for a new office building.
  The pedway used to link the Barbican estate with Moorgate tube station but closed when the tube station entrance was rebuilt for the Elizabeth line and remained closed while an over-site office block was built on top.
  Recently, the replacement pedway has opened, with a new set of escalators up to the elevated walkway sitting next to Moo
  
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• London Overground planning £150 million maintenance contract

  23-04-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is planning a £150 million maintenance project for the London Overground.TfL, through its Rail for London (RfL) subsidiary, has issued a tender notice to contractors to bid to carry out maintenance, faulting, repair, like for like replacement services across the entirety of its infrastructure for the East London Line Core Route
  The East London Line Core Route is soon to be known as the Windrush Line and covers the London Overground from Highbury and Islington to
  
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• Vivienne Westwood exhibition coming to London

  23-04-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A free exhibition of Vivienne Westwood’s clothes and possessions is coming to London in June, ahead of a sale of the collection.
  Propaganda, Dressed to Scale and Witches (c) Christie’s
  The British fashion designer and activist Dame Vivienne Westwood is recognised globally as one of the most influential designers of modern times, having established one of the world’s leading fashion brands. The sale, by Christie’s auction house, of items chosen by Andreas Kronthaler, Vivie
  
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• Campaigners want to move Lord Byron’s statue

  23-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A statue of Lord Byron, erected in what was part of Hyde Park at the time but is now marooned in a roundabout, should be moved to a better location, according to a campaign that aims to do just that.
  (c) ianVisits
  The sculpture, officially the Byron Memorial Statue, was installed near Hyde Park Corner in 1880 in a tear-shaped slice of the park known as Hamilton Gardens.
  However, in the late 1950s, the road layout around Hyde Park Corner was radically changed, with Hamilton Gardens substantially
  
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• Tim Hetherington’s lens reveals the human stories of war at IWM exhibition

  23-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s an exhibition of war photography at the IWM that isn’t the sort of photography you might be expecting.The exhibition,Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington, is a collection of 65 photos taken by the late photographer, who was killed in 2011, while covering the Lybian civil war.
  While most war photography, particularly for news reports, focuses on the war, Hetherington more often looked for the warriors, photographing the people at war, and often in the tedium of waiting
  
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• Telecom Italia chief defeats attempt to unseat him

  23-04-2024 10:55 via ft.com
  Pietro Labriola secures fresh mandate after phone carrier averted clash with biggest shareholder Vivendi at AGM
  
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• Telecom Italia averts Vivendi showdown at AGM

  23-04-2024 10:55 via ft.com
  Italian phone carrier to avoid clash over chief reappointment as French conglomerate abstains
  
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• TfL running shorter DLR trains to keep the fleet running

  23-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is having to run shorter trains on the DLR while it waits for its new fleet of replacement trains to arrive.The issue is that the 30-year old B92 trains are past their ideal retirement age, and in order to keep the trains running until their replacements arrive, TfL has had to reduce the millage each train operates.
  In order to do that, on the Woolwich branch, they’ve reduced the number of cars per train from three to two cars, so that they can reduce the mileage
  
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• Vodafone’s India unit staves off collapse after record $2.2bn fundraising

  23-04-2024 04:48 via ft.com
  Country’s largest share sale draws investors including GQG Partners and Fidelity
  
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• More national rail train strikes in early May

  22-04-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train drivers are to walk out on strike again, this time the week of the early May Bank Holiday. At the same time, they will implement an overtime ban, which could lead to short-notice cancellations.Most train drivers are members of the ASLEF union, and they have been in dispute over pay and conditions. They will carry out a series of one-day strikes over the first week of May after the bank holiday.
  The union says that its train driver members haven’t had an increase in salary for five ye
  
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• Tickets Alert: Late openings at London Zoo

  22-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London Zoo’s annual late evening openings during the summer months are back, with tickets on sale now.Every Friday from 7th June to 26th July 2024, London Zoo will be open to adults only from 6pm to 10pm, with the whole zoo open alongside events and drinks.
  Arguably, it’s also a way of seeing the animals in a different way from the daytime visits, as many of them become more active in the evening.
  Find out what the animals really get up to after dark with a Birds and The Bees guided
  
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• There’s a T-Rex dinosaur in Berkely Square at the moment

  22-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head over to posh Berkley Square in Mayfair, you can see the skeleton of a juvenile T-Rex dinosaur on the street.It’s actually a bronze cast from a life sized juvenile T-Rex skeleton called ‘Chomper’ which was excavated in Garfield County, Montana, USA in 2019. The actual dino-bones are held nearby by the David Aaron gallery, and are on sale for an eye-watering $20 million, but to make it easier for people to see the dinosaur, they commissioned a 3D scan and cast it in b
  
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• There’s a T-Rex dinosaur in Berkeley Square at the moment

  22-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you head over to posh Berkeley Square in Mayfair, you can see the skeleton of a juvenile T-Rex dinosaur on the street.It’s actually a bronze cast from a life sized juvenile T-Rex skeleton called ‘Chomper’ which was excavated in Garfield County, Montana, USA in 2019. The actual dino-bones are held nearby by the David Aaron gallery, and are on sale for an eye-watering $20 million, but to make it easier for people to see the dinosaur, they commissioned a 3D scan and cast it in
  
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• Spring savings on London theatre tickets

  22-04-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s larger theatre ticket sellers is having a spring sale at the moment with a range of discounts and exclusive prices on plays to musicals to dance.
  The offers give you a chance to take in a show and save a bit of money ahead of the busy summer season.
  The offers generally last a couple of weeks, but dates will vary on each show.Back To The Future
  Winner of Best New Musical 2022, Back To The Future The Musical is a trip back to 1955.
  From £24
  EXCLUSIVE PRICES
  Booking det
  
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• London’s Alleys: Albermarle Way, EC1

  22-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a Clerkenwell alley that seems likely to owe its origins to the dissolution of the monasteries and the sell-off of their land.The Priory of St John of Jerusalem, aka the Knights Hospitallers, is the monastery in question and was the home of the Hospitallers’ Grand Prior in England and their UK headquarters. The Priory was founded sometime the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189), and later acquired considerable lands to support its income. However, it was never rich as it sent most o
  
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• London’s Alleys: Albemarle Way, EC1

  22-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a Clerkenwell alley that seems likely to owe its origins to the dissolution of the monasteries and the sell-off of their land.The Priory of St John of Jerusalem, aka the Knights Hospitallers, is the monastery in question and was the home of the Hospitallers’ Grand Prior in England and their UK headquarters. The Priory was founded sometime the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189), and later acquired considerable lands to support its income. However, it was never rich as it sent most o
  
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• BT installs McKinsey partner to head new strategy unit

  21-04-2024 06:01 via ft.com
  Secondment marks first move by telecoms group’s new CEO Allison Kirby in her turnaround push
  
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• Tickets Alert: Harwell Campus science open day

  19-04-2024 16:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is outside London, but for the first time in eight years, the large Harwell science campus near Didcot will have a free open day for the public to wander around and see what happens here.
  (c) Diamond Light Source
  Part of the campus has regular open days, as it is the home of the UK’s national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, but the rest of the buildings are usually closed.
  On Saturday 29th June 2024, they will open their doors to everyone.
  The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, RAL Spac
  
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• Cody Dock secures funding to restore Thames Ironworks boat

  19-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  East London’s Cody Dock has been awarded nearly £1.7 million to restore a historic vessel made by Thames Ironworks and construct a new heritage centre for Newham.
  Proposed heritage centre (c) Cody Dock
  The aim of the Lighting Up The Lea project will see them able to preserve the Frederick Kitchen, one of the last boats to be produced at the mighty Thames Ironworks, whose closure in 1912 brought on the demise of shipbuilding in London. Once restored to its former glory, this historic
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of a remarkable Wandsworth home resume next month

  19-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unremarkable looking house on a busy Wandsworth road conceals a quite remarkable interior, and following some restoration works, limited tours will resume
  Exterior of 575 Wandsworth Road (c) ianVisits
  This is the simply named 575 Wandsworth Road, an ordinary terraced house which was bought in 1981 by a Kenyan born civil servant, and it’s what he did inside that makes it a marvel to visit.
  When Khadambi Asalache moved in, to deal with damp problems in the basement, he decided to clad the
  
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• Deep borehole dug underneath Parliament over Easter

  18-04-2024 19:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the Easter holiday, a deep borehole was drilled underneath the Houses of Parliament, reaching more than twice as deep as the Elizabeth line tunnels. The 84-metre deep borehole was part of 1,500 hours of intrusive surveys across the Palace of Westminster while the MPs were away to investigate the geological condition of the ground on which the Palace stands.
  (c) Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority
  The Palace of Westminster needs extensive restoration work and the
  
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