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• Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani files for blockbuster Jio float

  19-06-2026 15:10 via ft.com
  Listing of Reliance Industries’ telecoms business expected to be India’s largest ever
  
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• Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani lines up blockbuster Jio float

  19-06-2026 13:24 via ft.com
  Listing of Reliance Industries’ telecoms business expected to be India’s largest ever
  
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• SpaceX warns EU satellite plan risks undermining connectivity in Ukraine

  19-06-2026 00:00 via ft.com
  Elon Musk’s group hits out at proposal by bloc to reserve part of spectrum band for European operators
  
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• The London Buzz – 18th June 2026

  18-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The view from St Bride’s church tower
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Anger among Underhill residents over Barnet Council’s imposition of parking charges outside a parade of shops in Mays Lane is said to be a likely reason why parking signs have been obliterated with black paint. Barnet Society
  The leader of Enfield Council has decided to withdraw the civic centre’s legal defence against a judicial review case brought by campaigners wanti
  
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• Jewish Museum London awarded £1 million grant while it looks for a new home

  18-06-2026 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Jewish Museum London, which closed in 2023, has been given a £1 million grant to support its education and outreach work while it searches for a new permanent home, the government has announced.
  (c) Jewish Museum London
  The funding was unveiled by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy during a visit to the launch of Two Rooms, the museum’s new temporary exhibition space at JW3 in north London.
  The museum closed in July 2023 after its income plunged following the pandemic, and it chose to
  
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• Pontoon Dock DLR upgrade delayed by a few months

  18-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to upgrade Pontoon Dock DLR station has been pushed back by a few months while detailed design work and costs are still being estimated.
  The station needs upgrades to handle projected passenger demand as new housing is built nearby, but the current design can’t accommodate it. The upgrade will add six new escalators to reduce the load on the existing lifts, along with a new mezzanine level and street level improvements.
  The station today (c) ianVisits
  Upgraded station plans (c) Weston
  
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• Stranger Things meets South Bank in Anish Kapoor’s new exhibition

  18-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Stranger Things seems to have broken into London as monumentally ugly sculptures of blood and gore are filling the Hayward Gallery at the moment.This is actually the new Anish Kapoor exhibition, and features some of his latest works dripping in red, as well as stalwarts of his mirror work, and more controversially, his Vantablack works. A giant squashed balloon fills the opening gallery, which is technically impressive and contrasts nicely with the concrete stairs, but candidly, it’s a bal
  
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• London Museum confirms November opening date for its new Smithfield home

  18-06-2026 11:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Museum (formerly the Museum of London) has confirmed its delayed reopening date will be later this year, on 28th November 2026.
  The London Museum (c) Secchi Smith
  The former Museum of London closed in December 2022, and its replacement site near Farringdon station was due to open in 2024. That was later pushed back to early 2026, and the opening date has been confirmed as 28th November 2026.
  The original £337 million budget to convert the two old market buildings into the new mu
  
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• London Underground roundel unveiled on Japan’s Tokyo Metro

  18-06-2026 10:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The familiar London Underground roundel has appeared deep beneath Tokyo’s streets, after Transport for London (TfL) donated a specially designed roundel to mark the approaching centenary of Japan’s first subway.
  Sir Sadiq Khan and Akihiro Kosaka (c) Tokyo Metro
  The London-style roundel was unveiled on platform 2 of Ueno Station on Tokyo’s Ginza Line during a ceremony attended by London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, Tokyo Metro President Akihiro Kosaka, and TfL Commissioner Andy Lord.
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• Winning design chosen for Clapham railway bridge makeover

  18-06-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway bridge next to Clapham High Street and Clapham North stations is to get a makeover following an architectural competition to select a design.
  (C) Makower Architects
  The design by Makower Architects reclads the railway bridge with a new metal skin bearing the town name, and also adds that long-standing stalwart of railways – a clock tower.
  The judges praised the team’s vision for the railway bridge and clock tower, recognising its potential to create a distinctive gateway
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Sam Philp Recreation Ground, Hayes, UB3

  18-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park next to the M4, north of Heathrow Airport, with lots of trees planted a couple of decades ago to mitigate the noise from its noisy neighbours.
  It also lost the Frogs Ditch.As a plot of green, it’s always been fields and never built on. As Hayes town centre slowly expanded after the arrival of the railways, it took an incredibly long time to reach the site of the pocket park today.
  Even in the late 1930s, most of the area was still fields, and was part of Dawley Manor
  
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• Zip wire across Twickenham stadium to raise funds for children’s charity

  17-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to ride a zip wire across the top of the home of English Rugby – the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham.
  Skylarks Stadium Zipwire Adventure
  It’s a fundraising event for the local Skylarks charity, which provides a wide range of activities and therapies for children with additional needs, while also supporting their siblings and whole families.
  The zip wire will let you rush across the top of the stadium for around 150 metres – if you can hit the £300 per
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the 350-year-old Stationers’ Hall

  17-06-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden away around the corner from St Paul’s Cathedral is Stationers’ Hall, one of the largest and most opulent of the City of London’s livery halls, and they hold public tours.In addition to tours for groups, it’s also one of only two* Livery Halls in London that offer tours to the general public.
  Inside, there are lots of rich carpets and paintings, and a series of large meeting rooms that once served to manage the printing monopolies. The main star of the hall is,
  
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• Ericsson chief to step down after stabilising scandal-hit group

  16-06-2026 14:10 via ft.com
  Börje Ekholm admitted possible payments by company to Isis in 2022 but then improved performance
  
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• The London Buzz – 15th June 2026

  15-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Euston station
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Multi-millionaire banker with royal connections arrested in hunt for notorious ‘Putney Pusher’ LBC
  Street drinkers could face £100 fines in Camden after the council approved new powers to crack down on alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour in the borough. Fitzrovia News
  Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant heads to court to challenge eviction  Restaurant
  A homeowner in Collier Row ha
  
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• Gandhi autograph and suffragette protests among treasures in new London archive

  15-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London has gained a free history archive after more than 200 years of records, photographs, films and artefacts were uncovered and catalogued during the restoration of Union Chapel’s Sunday School building.
  Friends archive work (c) Union Chapel
  The new Sunday School Stories archive spans the period from 1799 to the present day and reveals the social, political and cultural history of both Union Chapel and London itself.
  The collection is now available online, with in-person access also off
  
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• Tower of London doubles price of late-night Ceremony of the Keys

  15-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Tower of London has doubled the cost of attending the late-night Ceremony of the Keys, from cheap to still very affordable.The Ceremony of the Keys is the formal locking up of the tower, and it takes place every single evening at 10pm. Although it’s a private event inside the Tower, each evening a small group of people are allowed to watch. And you can apply to be in that group.
  Attending the ceremony used to be free of charge, but you also had to write in for tickets and usually wait
  
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• Exhibition celebrates the women who made a living painting dogs

  15-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At a time when women could struggle to carve out a career as an artist, there was a niche they excelled at – painting dogs. And to show off that niche, an exhibition has opened, displaying over 120 doggy artworks painted by women.Appropriately, it’s at the Royal Kennel Club, and almost emphasising how normalised the idea of women painting dogs was, about half the club’s art collection was painted by women. That is compared to a tiny fraction of historic female artists in most a
  
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• Lumo to launch Starlink based Wi-Fi on East Coast trains this autumn

  15-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers travelling on Lumo’s services are set to benefit from improved onboard internet connections, as the rail operator prepares to introduce Starlink satellite technology across its fleet this autumn.
  (c) Lumo
  The upgrade will be provided on Lumo’s trains running along the  East Coast Main Line between London and Scotland.
  Unlike traditional onboard Wi-Fi systems, which rely on mobile phone networks and trackside infrastructure, Starlink uses a network of low Earth orbit s
  
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• Government strips Epping Forest Council of major planning powers

  15-06-2026 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Epping Forest District Council has joined a very small list of councils that have lost their power to determine major planning applications after exceeding the government’s threshold for planning decisions overturned on appeal.Under planning rules, developers can appeal if they believe a council has wrongly refused an application. To discourage councils from rejecting schemes without sound planning grounds, the government monitors how many refusals are later overturned.
  Councils are expect
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bride Court, City of London, EC4

  15-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This covered late Victorian alley sits next to what was once the heart of England’s noisy and boisterous newspaper trade, but today is a rather quieter space.The alley sits on the southwestern corner of the large junction where Fleet Street, Farringdon Street, New Bridge Street and Ludgate Hill meet. The corner plot was once the site of the Abbot of Winchcombe’s Inn, and later the Bishop of St David also built an inn next door.
  However, the alley quickly appeared as the area began to
  
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• SFR’s €20bn break-up can win watchdog approval, says Bouygues

  15-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Lead bidder for French telecoms operator hopes EU’s competitive drive will offset regulatory concerns about merger
  
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• The London Buzz – 12th June 2026

  12-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Piccadilly
  Today’s London news round-up:
  More than 70 people have been evacuated from their homes after a huge fire ripped through a nearby warehouse. Metro
  A “living legend” DJ who has played every Sunday night at a Hornchurch pub for the past 27 years has decided to stop. Romford Recorder
  A north London cat who has helped to save countless lives has been named blood donor of the year. Ham and High
  Dozens of protesters expressing support for Palestine Action have been arrested
  
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• The Red Arrows to fly over London for the King’s Birthday flypast

  12-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Weather permitting, a military aircraft flypast will take place over central London on Saturday to mark the King’s official birthday.
  (c) ianVisits
  The flypast is part of the Trooping the Colour ceremony, the ceremonial event that takes place on Horseguards Parade in the morning, and once that has finished and people have time to get into place, a flypast over London accompanied by the Red Arrows.
  As it happens, there’s also a rehearsal over the North Sea a week or so before the flyp
  
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• Canada House exhibition explores visibility, loss and LGBTQ+ lives

  12-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some exhibitions are content to tell stories from the past. Invisible Portraits, by British-Canadian artist Lucy Ash, is more interested in asking why certain stories disappear in the first place.Through painting, film and sound, the exhibition explores lives that have been overlooked, erased or only partially remembered, bringing together figures from LGBTIQ+ history alongside personal works that confront prejudice, grief and loss.
  Among the cultural figures represented are poet Wilfred Owen an
  
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• Tickets Alert: A chance to step inside the original Public Records strongroom

  12-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a rare chance to step inside the original strongroom where the nation’s public records were once housed as part of a new immersive audio exhibition.
  Entrance to the former Public Records Building (now the Maughan Library)
  The Public Records Building was constructed in the 1850s next to Chancery Lane in the City of London and is claimed to have been the first purpose-built fireproof building in England. To further minimise the risk of fire, the document storerooms were designe
  
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• This week’s sale theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct

  12-06-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct.
  Kinky Boots
  Kinky Boots struts back into the West End!
  From £15 – SAVE UP TO 53% Oliver!
  Experience the Olivier Award-winning family musical today!
  From £25 – SAVE UP TO £41 To Kill A Mockingbird
  Opens 25th June 2026
  Harper Lee’s masterpiece, reimagined for London theatre
  From £37 – SAVE UP TO 31%
  Titanique
  All aboard the Titanique!
  From £25 &ndash
  
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• The London Buzz – 11th June 2026

  11-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Digging the Piccadilly line – old cigarette card
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Serious cycling accidents have jumped in Hackney and other London boroughs, a new analysis reveals. Standard
  Ealing Council has decided to pull the plug on its arms length housing venture after the scheme left it needing to make huge write-offs and delivered just 180 homes as opposed to thousands Neighbournet
  Enfield Council agrees out-of-court settlement with owner of T
  
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• Dress for 1066: The Bayeux Tapestry now has its own official Scottish tartan

  11-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Any Scots planning a trip to London this summer to see the Bayeux Tapestry could choose to arrive suitably dressed — in an official Bayeux tartan. That’s because a tartan has been designed by Professor Michael Lewis, who just happens to also be the lead Curator of the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition.Its colours are drawn directly from the famous embroidery, particularly a scene depicting the dying King Edward the Confessor apparently promising the English throne to
  
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• Limehouse station platforms to close in phases for upgrade works

  11-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The national rail platforms at Limehouse station in East London will be partially closed until late this year for maintenance. They will also extend the London-bound platform.The first phase of works will run from Monday 22nd June to Monday 6th July, when the Essex-bound platform (Platform 2) will remain closed throughout.
  During this phase, customers using the Essex-bound Platform 2 at Limehouse Station are advised that there will be no station entrance or exit access for Essex-bound services,
  
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• London unveils a blue plaque for Sir Laurence Olivier

  11-06-2026 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sir Laurence Olivier, widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque at his childhood home in Pimlico.
  (c) ianVisits
  Unveiled by Ian McKellen, the plaque at Olivier’s childhood home on Lupus Street marks the London address where Olivier first discovered a passion for acting and where the foundations of his stage and screen career were laid.
  Olivier lived in the house between the ages of six and 11 while his father s
  
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• Warburg Pincus and KKR tap buyers for UK broadband businesses

  10-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Altnet sector grapples with lower-than-expected customer fibre uptake and higher costs
  
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• The London Buzz – 9th June 2026

  09-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Embankment
  Today’s London news round-up:
  China accused of ‘snubbing’ judicial review over controversial London mega-embassy Jurist News
  First Putney gym to win community protection now battling TfL over rent Putney News
  Brent Council has been ordered to pay out £2,500 for the “distress and difficulties” it caused a mum and her three children after they were left in unsuitable housing for 10 months. Harrow Online
  New powers s
  
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• VodafoneThree bids for TalkTalk consumer business

  09-06-2026 16:00 via ft.com
  Acquisition would help UK’s largest mobile operator fulfil ambition to double its broadband business
  
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• Tickets Alert: Backstage tours of the Eventim Apollo

  09-06-2026 15:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, there’s going to be the first in a series of backstage tours of Hammersmith’s famous Eventim Apollo.
  (c) Eventim Apollo
  Originally opened in 1932 and renowned for its Art Deco architecture, the Grade II*-listed venue has hosted generations of legendary music, comedy, theatre and cultural events.
  There are three events – one for performers, a stage show, and one offering the backstage tours.
  Centre Stage – Saturday 8th August
  A rare chance for music fans to pe
  
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• Blue plaque honours East End anti-racism pioneer Kamal Chunchie

  09-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A blue plaque has been unveiled on a sailors’ hostel in Poplar to commemorate Kamal Chunchie, the pastor, community worker and anti-racist campaigner whose work transformed the lives of Black and Asian communities in London’s docklands.Installed by English Heritage on the Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest in Jeremiah Street, the plaque marks the building where Chunchie’s mission first took shape. Working there between 1922 and 1924, he encountered Black and Asian seamen and th
  
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• Pride Month on the move with new TfL art trail and audio tour

  09-06-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is marking Pride Month with the launch of a new audio tour celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories across the capital’s transport network, while also commemorating the 10th anniversary of the distinctive Pride-themed pedestrian crossings in Trafalgar Square.
  (c) TfL
  Produced by Art on the Underground in partnership with OUTbound, TfL’s LGBTQIA+ staff network, the free Pride Audio Tour invites Londoners to explore five artworks across the network while listening to per
  
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• The many faces of Marilyn Monroe on display in London exhibition

  09-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are nearly 300 Marilyn Monroes in the National Portrait Gallery at the moment as they put on a centenary exhibition about the woman whose image was fixed by an untimely death.The exhibition opens with two images, one instantly recognisable as an Andy Warhol print, but opposite something small and easy to overlook – an early, untouched photo of a young lady. That’s the Norma Jeane who would become Marilyn Monroe.
  Then there’s room after room of Marilyn. A smorgasbord of Ma
  
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• Tickets Alert: Explore miniature worlds at London’s Bonsai treehouses exhibition

  09-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The team that brings us the Gingerbread city in the winter has turned to the Japanese art of Bonsai trees for its summer exhibition.
  Galina Nelyubova For Unsplash+
  On display will be a collection of bonsai specimens alongside treehouse designs, created by architects and designers, that are inspired by the distinct form and character of these ancient trees.
  Each tree has its own story, and every treehouse design explores this year’s theme: “Together”.
  Bonsai are not naturally mi
  
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• What phantom traffic jams can teach us about crowded Tube escalators

  09-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Have you ever stepped onto an escalator intending to walk up the left-hand side, only to find yourself trapped behind a wall of people standing still because a bottleneck has formed ahead?
  And wished there were some way to make it clear?
  As it happens, there is.
  Oddly enough, the answer comes from the way traffic behaves on motorways.
  Elizabeth line’s Farringdon station in the rush hour (c) ianVisits
  Drivers have long experienced the curious phenomenon of crawling through a traffic jam, ex
  
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• The London Buzz – 8th June 2026

  08-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Bridge to Cannon Street station circa 1875
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Man denies causing nuisance by climbing Big Ben BBC News
  TfL must use new regulatory powers granted by the government to crack down on “nuisance” e-bike parking, City Hall Labour have said. South London
  The Met Police have backed down on plans to force out dozens of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) previously tasked with enforcing red route restrictions on roads
  
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• Fancy a scoop of… what? London’s strangest ice cream shop returns

  08-06-2026 17:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s more unusual summer pop-ups has returned, as Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project opens for its fifth year. The annual venture takes familiar supermarket and pantry staples and turns them into ice cream and sorbet flavours – with varying degrees of weirdness and success.Previous years have featured everything from Heinz Baked Beans and Branston Piccalilli to Bisto Gravy, alongside slightly less challenging options such as Sun-Pat Peanut Butter, McVitie’s Mil
  
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• After-work art: National Gallery opens until 7pm throughout summer

  08-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The National Gallery is extending its opening hours and will open late every evening for a couple of months this summer.The gallery, which has seen its visitor numbers struggling to recover to pre-pandemic levels says that the late opening initiative responds directly to audience demand for more flexible visiting hours, particularly for Londoners and commuters who are unable to visit during traditional daytime opening hours.
  National Gallery Summertime also aims to attract first-time visitors lo
  
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• Bouygues Telecom consortium agrees to buy Patrick Drahi’s SFR for €20.35bn

  07-06-2026 00:16 via ft.com
  Bid from group including Orange and Free-Iliad faces showdown with antitrust regulators in Paris and Brussels
  
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• Five-day bus strike to disrupt seven East London routes next week

  06-06-2026 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a five day long bus strike in London next week, affecting seven bus routes across East London.The strikes are planned on bus routes operated by Stagecoach from Bow Bus Garage, and Transport for London (TfL) says that some services will be severely delayed and buses may be cancelled.
  According to Unite the Union, over 300 bus drivers will be on strike in a dispute over long shifts without breaks, insufficient time between shifts, and increased weekend work.
  These routes are affected
  
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• Giant Joseph Paxton bust restored to its original Crystal Palace location

  05-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A monumental bust of Sir Joseph Paxton, the Victorian designer behind both the Crystal Palace and the park that bears its name, has been returned to its original position on the Italian Terraces as part of the ongoing restoration of Crystal Palace Park.
  (c) Crystal Palace Park Trust
  The oversized stone sculpture, which had stood for many years on a rather unappealing brick plinth near the sports ground, has now been installed on a newly constructed plinth overlooking the landscape Paxton himself
  
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• First images unveiled of future Thamesmead DLR station

  05-06-2026 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first images of the proposed new DLR stations for the Thamesmead extension have been released as part of the final consultation on the plans.
  Proposed extension route (c) TfL
  For the extension, a new station will be built at Beckton Riverside, with two tunnels under the River Thames linking to another new station at Thamesmead.  Previous consultations on the plans came, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly in favour of a rail link, and this final stage is looking at more detailed plans for th
  
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• One of the world’s rarest Bibles goes on display at St Paul’s Cathedral

  05-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the great treasures of the English language is going on display for the first time, offering a rare chance to see a book that was once hunted down and burned as heresy.The book is one of only three surviving copies of the 1526 Tyndale New Testament, a translation so controversial that King Henry VIII’s agents spent years trying to suppress it and track down its creator across Europe.
  Its significance is difficult to overstate.
  Not only did it help fuel the religious upheavals that t
  
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• First of 10 new Elizabeth line trains rolls off Derby production line

  05-06-2026 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of ten additional Elizabeth line trains has rolled off the production line in Derby and is now undergoing testing ahead of entering passenger service later this year.
  Unit 345071 testing at Derby Litchurch Lane Works (c) Alstom
  Built by Alstom at its Litchurch Lane Works, the nine-carriage train has completed assembly and is now running on the factory’s test track for final checks before moving to London for a programme of trials on the national rail network and the Elizabeth lin
  
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• A pride of painted lions has arrived in London

  05-06-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander around central London over the next few weeks, you might spy some brightly coloured lions.They’re the latest in the genre of “get artists to paint a sculpture and sell it for charity”, and put them on display in public places for a walking trail.
  And, topically, they’re football-themed, as each lion/lioness is resting a paw on a football.
  The trail runs until 10th August and stretches across Westminster and Victoria. Two of the lions seemed to be missing, un
  
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