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• London Underground releases a new tube map

  08-12-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new tube map has started appearing in London Underground stations, and there’s a lot of changes to this edition.
  Most notable is what’s not on the map — a long purple line that should have marked the launch of the Elizabeth line.
  But what’s been added is a clearer way of showing when tube stations on different lines are within walking distance of each other. Although a lot of Zone 1 is omitted as you’ll have dotted lines all over the place turning the map into a s
  
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• Giant glowing slugs outside the Tate Britain

  08-12-2018 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of its Christmas decorations, Tate Britain has commissioned an artist to design two giant slugs to sit outside the art gallery.
  Art is weird.The British artist, Monster Chetwynd made the giant slugs from compostable materials and they are illuminated by LED rope lighting and accompanied by swathes of blue and white LED slug trails across the façade of the building.
  The artist says that she took inspiration from a David Attenborough nature documentary, Life in the Undergrowth, whic
  
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• An oral history of the London Mithraeum

  08-12-2018 12:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A delightful video has been released of a group of people who were at the original excavation of the London Mithraeum and recently returned to see its restoration.
  When the Temple of Mithras was unearthed in 1954, thousands of people queued for hours to be able to get a glimpse of the excavation works. It was a moment of hope in a city that was still clearing rubble from the war and where people went hungry due to food rationing.
  As such it sparked a level of interest that seems maybe a little s
  
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• There will be a heritage bus service in London on Christmas Day

  08-12-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the day when tubes, trains, buses and even cable cars go to sleep, there will one bus company offering a very special Christmas Day service.
  A vintage bus hire company will be offering a free vintage bus service on Route 430 between Roehampton and Putney Bridge.
  The staff, all volunteers are doing it, they say for fun, goodwill, and, as they admit, to promote their vintage bus hire.
  Richard Shirley who owns the bus said that he “wanted to find a route that connected people with a local
  
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