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• New archaeology trail around HS2’s Ruislip building site

  31-08-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Archaeological works taking place on West Ruislip Golf Course where HS2 is preparing its tunnel boring machines have revealed over 45,000 years of history, and there’s now a walking trail to show off what’s been found and where.Evidence of human activity in Hillingdon has been uncovered from the last Ice Age (when the climate was cooling ahead of the last glaciation) to 800-year-old medieval kilns and agriculture – which made use of the natural resources in Ruislip and its surr
  
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• Tours of the ancient Lincoln’s Inn have resumed

  31-08-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Lincoln’s Inn, the 600 year old home of lawyers in central London is a large cluster of ancient buildings, and they are now offering guided tours of the estate.
  (c) Lincoln’s Inn
  Visitors are already able to walk around the precincts of the Inn and the Chapel during the week. but the Inn’s buildings are only open for organised tours. They used to offer regular tours, but these stopped in 2016 because of building work, then delays and the pandemic stopped them from restarting, s
  
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• National rail strikes to take place in September

  31-08-2022 15:39 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Two national rail strikes have been announced for September (so far), taking place on Thursday 15th September and on Monday/Tuesday 26th/27th September.
  The first strike
  The first strike on the 15th September is by Aslef members, which is mainly the train drivers, and will affect 12 of the UK’s train operating companies. As it’s train drivers going on strike, the impact is expected to be considerable.
  “We regret that, once again, passengers are going to be inconvenienced,&rdquo
  
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• Watford and Herts councils make fresh push for Watford to Croxley link

  31-08-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Although the planned extension of the London Underground’s Met line in Watford was cancelled in 2018, the local councils have appointed a team to look at alternative options for making use of the abandoned route.
  The cancelled rail link proposal
  Working with Hertfordshire County Council, Watford Borough Council, Three Rivers District Council and Network Rail, Watford Council has appointed Atkins, SYSTRA UK and Wood Group to work on ideas for opening up the link.
  The defunct Metropolitan Li
  
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• 5G subs close to 700 million in Q2 – Ericsson

  31-08-2022 12:56
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson estimates 70 million 5G subscriptions were added in Q2 2022, bringing the total figure up to almost 700 million.
  Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report update, which has its customary nose around the telecoms sector and throws up various statistics as to how the industry is performing, states that total number of 5G subscriptions globally reached 690 million by the end of the Q2 2022. By now it estimates 218 providers have launched commercial 5G services and 24 have
  
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• Royal Caribbean claims cruise ship satellite connectivity first with Starlink

  31-08-2022 12:28
  Cruise ship operator Royal Caribbean is hoping to make sure its customers will never be starved of lovely connectivity by using Spacex’s Starlink satellite internet service.
  This is the second significant announcement for SpaceX in a week, following its nascent collaboration with T-Mobile US. This one is set to yield tangible results far more quickly, however, as it involves the established Starlink service rather than an aspiration that is years from fruition. Royal Caribbean says it&rsqu
  
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• Liberty Networks starts laying new fibre network in Germany

  31-08-2022 11:36
  A joint venture between Liberty Global Ventures and InfraVia Capital Partners, Liberty Networks, has began rolling out a new full fibre network in Germany branded helloFiber.
  Construction of the new fibre brand starts this week in Rudersberg, a municipality in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg. The brand is focussed on rural areas that don’t currently have fibre broadband services, and is apparently in active discussions with further regions who are in the same boat.
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• London’s Pocket Parks: 25 Cannon Street, EC4 — Redux

  31-08-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A refurbished pocket park recently opened close to St Paul’s Cathedral and is notable now for a large polished reflection pond that gives photographers reflections of the cathedral in the still water.
  At least that’s the theory, but what about during a heatwave when all water features are turned off?Well, you are left with a curious structure in the middle of the park, looking not unlike a giant stone wall with a dark void in the middle. It could just as easily be modern art instead
  
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