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• London exhibitions to visit in June 2022

  02-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As we recover from the long weekend and head into summer, here’s a selection of ten excellent exhibitions to fill your days with.Postwar Modern – New Art in Britain 1945-1965
  Barbican Arts Centre
  Standard: £18 |  Concessions: £13
  Postwar Modern explores the art produced in Britain in the wake of a cataclysmic war. Certainty was gone, and the aftershocks continued, but there was also hope for a better tomorrow. These conditions gave rise to an incredible richness of i
  
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• Rail closures around New Cross station in August

  02-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway between New Cross and St Johns in southeast London will be closed over a number of weekends later this summer due to track replacement work. That closure is likely to affect Southeastern services between London Bridge and Lewisham.
  Affected area highlighted on TfL rail map
  Network Rail says that they will be renewing the switches and crossings (the moveable sections of track that guide trains from one track to another and allow them to cross paths). They will also renew the rails, sl
  
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• CityFibre secures £4.9bn debt raise to roll out broadband to 8mn UK homes

  02-06-2022 10:47
  Financing will enable Goldman-backed ‘altnet’ to participate in government scheme to reach rural areas
  
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• Large military flypast over London today

  02-06-2022 10:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At lunchtime today, one of the largest military flypasts in a generation will fly over Central London, for the Platinum Jubilee.
  There’s always a flypast of sorts on the Queen’s official birthday, but this year’s flypast is going to be much larger than usual. The flypast will be made up of 70 aircraft and features participants from the three services, the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.
  In addition to serving aircraft, the flypast will include a Lancaster Bomber,
  
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• neXat interconnects with Eutelsat ADVANCE network to deliver wider coverage and better flexibility for ISPs worldwide

  02-06-2022 09:00
  
  Singapore and Brussels, Belgium, 2 June 2022 – Connectivity providers worldwide can now benefit from better choice, wider coverage and greater flexibility thanks to the creation of a new global satellite network of Point-of-Presence (PoP) interconnections. The world’s first satellite aggregation platform, neXat (powered by SatADSL), will interconnect its three global PoPs – based in Brussels, Orlando and Singapore – to the Eutelsat ADVANCE global network. Eutelsat’s
  
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• London’s Public Art: A giant bath plug in Paddington

  02-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you walk along the Grand Union Canal near Paddington Station, you might stumble upon a giant bath plug in the ground. Is it there to stop the water draining out? No, it’s art, but with a hidden purpose.The artwork sits outside the recently completed Brunel Building, and as a condition of the planning consent, new buildings are usually required to commission something arty for the public.
  Derwent London commissioned the artist, Gavin Turk to come up with something for this location on th
  
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