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• Winter Wonderland returns to Hyde Park

  22-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Now in its 15th year, the annual Winter Wonderland funfair is returning to Hyde Park for festive fun.
  Inside the fenced-off estate, there will be ice skating, Zippos circus, an “ice kingdom”, Cirque Berserk, ice sculpting workshops, Santa land, the giant wheel, a roller coaster — and loads of food and drink stalls. A new attraction for this year, “Hotel Edelweiss” is a huge, multi-level funhouse walk-through in Bavarian style, with lots of tricks along a 300m alpine
  
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• Vodafone/Hungary: victor Orbán builds nationalist champ at a cost

  22-08-2022 16:36
  Telecoms group is clever or lucky to get a good price for its Hungarian unit
  
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• Maps of historic Lambeth go on display at Lambeth Palace Library

  22-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Lambeth Palace’s newish library building currently has an exhibition of old maps showing how this part of London developed over the centuries.The collection ranges from the 17th to 19th century, from when all around here were fields through the arrival of the railways to modern social planning maps. The development of Lambeth Palace and its estates is also featured from woods in Camberwell to Timber yards in Waterloo.The exhibition is in four cases, each with light protection shields, so y
  
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• CityFibre pimps its brand to drive customer acquisition

  22-08-2022 13:48
  
  CityFibre has repainted its branding in a bid to bring some clarity to the UK fibre broadband market and ultimately to further its own full fibre agenda.
  Alongside the brand refresh, the fibre network builder is carrying out a broad marketing drive to push the benefits of full fibre, versus part-fibre broadband services, something it insists consumers are still struggling with from a terminology perspective.
  It’s all in the tone, apparently. In its rebrand announcement, CityFibre refers to
  
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• Vodafone flogs Hungary unit to systems integrator 4iG

  22-08-2022 13:31
  
  UK-based Vodafone’s bid to slim down and focus on its core markets has taken a €1.8 billion step forward.
  The telco on Monday agreed to sell 100 percent of its Hungarian unit to a pair of buyers: local systems integrator 4iG and state-owned holding company Corvinus. The all-cash deal will see them take stakes in Vodafone Hungary of 51 percent and 49 percent respectively. The transaction is expected to close, subject to due diligence and the usual regulatory checks, by the end of this
  
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• See a steam train covered in Christmas lights this winter

  22-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A steam train covered in Christmas lights is coming to northeast London once more this winter, as the Epping-Ongar heritage railway runs its Light Fantastic services in the evenings.
  The magic begins as soon as you arrive at Ongar. As the train makes a grand arrival, marvel at the brightly lit carriages, and once on board the train, let the magic unfold as the music plays and the story begins. The exterior of the steam train will be decorated with lights, but that is only a part of the experienc
  
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• Nokia and Safaricom deploy FWA 5G slicing trial in Africa

  22-08-2022 12:28
  
  Finnish kit vendor Nokia and regional operator Safaricom have collaborated on what they are calling Africa’s first Fixed Wireless Access 5G slicing trial.
  The trial, which took place in Kenya’s Western Region, used a multi-vendor network environment encompassing RAN, transport and core, and it is claimed this represents the first time 4G/5G network slicing has been successfully achieved in Africa. Nokia kit deployed to run the pilot included AirScale 4G/5G base stations, the NetAct n
  
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• Vodafone to sell Hungarian business for $1.8bn to state-backed groups

  22-08-2022 10:38
  Deal will help consolidate PM Viktor Orbán’s influence in sector
  
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• Vodafone to sell Hungarian business for $1.8bn

  22-08-2022 10:38
  Deal will help European telecoms group trim debt as it hunts for M&A elsewhere
  
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• “Bend-to-the-end” – new addition to HUBER+SUHNER range completes set of interconnectivity cabling to outfit satellites

  22-08-2022 10:00
  
  As the anticipated adoption of space tourism in the coming years leads to a predicted rise in satellite services, HUBER+SUHNER has launched the MINI250™H cable assembly – the most robust cable on the market today. According to Allied Market Research, the global space electronics market is projected to reach $5.4 billion by 2031. Evidence of this growth is highlighted by the increasing number of satellites being launched, with Euroconsult anticipating an average of 1,700 satellite...S
  
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• Woman killed after road accident blocks the Piccadilly line

  22-08-2022 09:47 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Underground’s Piccadilly line has been blocked in west London after a Range Rover fell onto the railway following a road accident.
  The Metropolitan Police also confirmed that a woman died in the accident.
  (c) Google street view
  The police say that just before 4am this morning, a Range Rover and a Tesla, were involved in a collision and the Range Rover had left the road and gone onto the railway line near Park Royal tube station.
  A woman in the stationary Tesla was treated for in
  
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• London’s Alleys: Clarges Mews, W1

  22-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Clarges Mews is a curiously mixed mews just to the north of Piccadilly that ranges from charmingly narrow and cobbled to wide open and yard-like spaces.The area of the mews was originally a farm, Brick Close, on the banks of the Tybourne, and acquired by the first Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and owned thereafter by his descendants. Originally the site of Berkeley House in the 1660s, and although the roads had been laid out early, the development of the area only really took off in the 1770s. By t
  
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