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• US Congress asks Pai why he keeps ignoring its letters

  24-05-2018 17:51
  The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, one of the illustrious commissions of the US Congress, has written to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai asking why he is continuing to ignore communications from elected representatives.
  The letter itself expresses appreciation for Pai’s willingness to testify in front of the committee, but asks why he is evasive with answers, refuses to address certain questions or even acknowledge the question in the first place. Attached to the communication
  
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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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• Warning of two-week closure of the Liverpool Street to Chingford railway

  18-04-2024 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Liverpool Street to Chingford railway line will be closed for 16 days this summer as Network Rail replaces a large bridge supporting a road junction near the Hackney Downs.
  This will affect both London Overground and Greater Anglia services that use the railway and some changes to other services that pass through the Hackney area of London.
  The affected railway runs on arches above the streets along most of its length, but as it approaches the Hackney Downs, it dips down into a tunnel to pas
  
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• Charing Cross Library’s “Matteotti Affair” exhibition revisits 1924’s anti-fascist movement

  18-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A century ago, the kidnapping and murder of an Italian politician could have prevented the rise of Mussolini, and there’s currently an exhibition about the man in Charing Cross.The location of an exhibition about an Italian is no mere convenience, as the library has a strong Italian heritage.
  The building was actually built in 1891 for Samuel Addington & Co, a woollen merchant. They moved out, and in 1937, it was taken over by the Italian Benevolent Society. It became the London office
  
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• Murder, Mystery, and Masterpiece: Caravaggio’s last painting arrives in London

  18-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A dark, brooding painting dominates a dark room in the National Gallery at the moment, sitting next to the fragile document that only recently confirmed that this is indeed the last painting by the brilliant but flawed artist Caravaggio.This depiction of the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula – she of 11,000 virgins – was commissioned by one of Caravaggio’s patrons while the artist was still on the run after he had been convicted of murder. Being a murderer wasn’t enough to stop p
  
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• Bimetallic coin to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary

  18-04-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new coin has been issued to mark the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary, although it is unlikely to be seen in shops as it is a collectable coin.
  Although it’s a collectable coin, it’s also legal tender, in the very narrow definition of what qualifies as legal tender (no, Scottish banknotes aren’t legal tender). That required the King to authorise the production of the coins with a Royal Proclamation, and they would have been validated in the Trial of the Pyx earlier
  
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• The Tottenham High Cross

  18-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the middle of a north London road junction can be found a 400 year old stone tower that once gave its name to this part of London.This is the Tottenham High Cross, erected sometime between 1600 and 1609 by Owen Wood, a local resident and later Dean of Armagh, on the site of a wooden wayside cross first mentioned in 1409. It marks what was the centre of Tottenham Village. In fact, the area later became known as High Cross before later urban expansion saw it revert back to being part of Tottenh
  
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• Tickets Alert: Routemaster bus history tour of Richmond

  17-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to go on a tour around some of the key historic locations in the Richmond area, with your journey between them taking place in a Routemaster bus.
  The tours will be conducted in Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill’s classic Routemaster bus, and money raised from the tours will support the local Habitats & Heritage charity’s conservation work.
  Two tours will take place on Saturday 1st June 2024:Morning tour
  Will visit the Kilmorey Mausoleum and the St. Leonards Court
  
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• Demolition of the old Museum of London approved — but also delayed

  17-04-2024 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The City of London has approved plans to demolish the former Museum of London building and neighbouring Bastion House, but the Communities Secretary Michael Gove has also called the plans in for review.Michael Gove’s department issued an Article 31 Holding Direction yesterday, which technically prevents the City of London from making a decision until his department has also reviewed the plans. So, the City of London has been able to indicate that it approves the plans, but construction wor
  
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• Hampton Court Palace gardens free open days

  17-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few weekends each year, the expansive gardens surrounding Hampton Court Palace are open to visitors for free.As it happens, the gardens used to be free to wander around every morning, but that changed after the pandemic, and now they’re only open a few days a year — but the upside is that they’re open for the entire day.
  The gardens are huge and exceptionally varied, ranging from neat formal box hedged spaces to wide open lawns and even the so-called wilderness, which is pret
  
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• Horizon 22 – London’s highest viewing gallery can now be rented for private events

  17-04-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Horizon 22, London’s highest — and free — viewing gallery is now available to be hired for events as well.
  Horizon 22 (c) ianVisits
  Fortunately for the crowds who throng to visit during the daytime, events can only take place in the early morning or evenings, so the viewing gallery will remain a free venue during the daytime.
  For people wanting the space for their private events, it is now available from 6am to 9.30am and 7pm to 3am, seven days a week, and has a capacity for up
  
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