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• First pier cast for HS2’s Colne Valley viaduct

  29-12-2021 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Construction of what will be the UK’s longest railway bridge has taken a step forward as the casting of the first of 56 concrete piers has been completed.
  Stretching for 3.4km, the viaduct will carry HS2 trains over the Colne Valley on a short overground stretch between West Ruislip and the tunnel mouth next to the M25 motorway. Set low into the landscape, wid spans will carry the viaduct crosses the lakes, and narrow spans will be for the approaches.
  The final design is by Grimshaw, based
  
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• Paysend Enters Partnership with Tencent Financial Technology for Money Transfers Through Weixin

  29-12-2021 12:51
  
  LONDON – 29 DECEMBER 2021 – Paysend, the card-to-card pioneer and international payments platform, today announces a technology partnership with Tencent Financial Technology, the fintech arm of world-leading internet and technology company Tencent, that will enable people receive money through Weixin, the PRC version of WeChat targeting users in mainland China. Under the partnership, Paysend will enable users to send money across borders through licensed banks in China, with the fund
  
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• A visit to St Mary le Strand church

  29-12-2021 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sitting in the middle of the road outside Somerset House on Strand is a grand church with a tall steeple it shouldn’t have. This is St Mary le Strand, the second church of the name in the area – the original one being recorded as existing in 1222, so next year is its 800th anniversary.
  Not this specific church though, as the original was slightly to the south, and demolished in 1549 to make space for Somerset House, and the current church dates to 1714-17.
  The current church was one
  
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