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• New exhibition tells the lost story of London’s African orphans

  04-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  When the Foundling Hospital was set up nearly 300 years ago to care for London’s orphans, what few could have expected is how many children would come from Africa and Asia. Even today, that lost part of the history of the Foundling Hospital is only starting to be uncovered, and a new exhibition looks at some of the unexpected stories they’ve managed to piece together.Until now, researchers have made accidental discoveries of references to African and Asian children in the Hospital. N
  
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• Vodafone: Three UK deal would impede necessary restructuring

  04-10-2022 17:28 via ft.com
  Unknotting mobile operator requires deft sword strokes, not fiddling with loose ends
  
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• Tickets Alert: Stand next to the Flying Scotsman at King’s Cross

  04-10-2022 15:32 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Next weekend, the world-famous Flying Scotsman steam train* will be visiting London King’s Cross station, and there are platform access tickets being offered so you can get up close to the engine.A platform ticket will allow you a short amount of time on the platform to be one of the first to get up close to Flying Scotsman fresh from its overhaul. Positioned on platform 8 (in the main shed), you will have the chance to take a photo with the famous nameplate before collecting your memorabi
  
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• Cellnex can’t seem to resist a bit of UK M&A

  04-10-2022 14:22
  Telco infrastructure giant Cellnex has opened its wallet once again in order to expand its UK presence.
  The Spanish company on Monday agreed to acquire distributed antenna system (DAS) provider Herbert In-Building (HiBW), which up until now has been a division of retail technology group Herbert.
  Under the deal, Cellnex will fold HiBW into its existing UK DAS business, forming a new entity called Cellnex UK In-Building Solutions (CUKIS). The unit will be led by HiBW’s current director, Tim
  
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• Italian operators continue 5G FWA push

  04-10-2022 14:14
  Vodafone Italia is very excited about hitting its latest 5G fixed wireless access milestone, while one of Italy’s FWA market leaders has changed its name as it embarks on a new, wholesale-only strategy.
  Vodafone’s high-speed broadband based on 5G mobile technology is now available in 1,500 Italian municipalities, covering 2 million homes, it revealed on Monday. It might not be the telco group’s most significant announcement of the week, but it’s a pretty big deal to peopl
  
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• Tate’s Cezanne blockbuster is full of fruit and fruity paintings

  04-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  One of the largest collections of Cezanne paintings ever assembled has arrived in London, and filled a whole series of rooms at the Tate with his signature still lifes, landscapes, and nudes.Cezanne is one of those artists about whom so much has been written and who died recently enough for people to write copiously about him from personal knowledge, that it can be difficult for an exhibition to say anything new.
  So, here the Tate hasn’t tried to say too much that is new, but simply to fil
  
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• UK is just 53 in the world on fibre development

  04-10-2022 12:30
  Analyst firm Omdia has published its Global Fiber Development 2022 Index and it reveals that many supposedly developed countries are lagging behind.
  Omdia tracks 88 countries, which means the UK is in the bottom half when it comes to fibre rollout. To be fair to us, many of the countries near the top are much smaller and, in the case of the leader Singapore, almost entirely urbanized. But it’s still disappointing to see a country that has paid so much lip service to the importance of ubiqu
  
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• Most football fans fancy watching the World Cup in the metaverse

  04-10-2022 12:25
  Amdocs surveyed people in the UK who planned to watch the 2022 World Cup, and claims that 62% expressed interest in using the metaverse to be part of a virtual stadium.
  The telecoms software vendor has penned a report called The World Cup 2022 Viewing Report which surveyed 1000 people in the UK who planned to watch the 2022 World Cup, and over half of them are up for ‘new interactive technologies to enable their viewing experience, such as the metaverse and augmented reality’, and ar
  
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• The Sidings – Waterloo station’s deserted shopping mall

  04-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Underneath Waterloo station, there’s a brand new, and almost entirely empty shopping centre that’s currently a spooky delight to explore.It’s a redevelopment of the former Eurostar terminal that sat underneath the platforms, and part of it opened just before the pandemic as a corridor linking the mainline platforms with the London Underground.
  However, over the past few years, work has been going on behind the hoardings to convert the rest of the space into three floors of shop
  
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