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• Half price on “& Juliet” theatre tickets

  07-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Do you believe in life after Romeo? What if Juliet put the dagger down and decided to take a girl’s trip instead? In this irreverent rewrite that’s exactly what happens. When Juliet wakes up instead of a dagger to the heart she gathers Nurse and her best girlfriends and heads to the city of lights. And Juliet sets off to prove that she is the author of her own story and that there is life, and love, after Romeo.This musical features the back catalogue of Swedish songwriter
  
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• Avanti West Coast given six months to fix its problems

  07-10-2022 15:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Troubled Avanti West Coast, which runs trains along the West Coast route between London and Scotland has been given six months to fix its problems or face losing its license.The license was due to expire next week, but it’s been given a short reprieve to show that it can turn performance around. The Department for Transport (DfT) says that the short extension was merited as the company has been adding services to replace the ones it cancelled due to a shortage of train drivers.
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• Frameless – immersive art fills a cavernous Marble Arch basement

  07-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A vast empty basement space at Marble Arch opens today that will be filled with cathedral-sized 360-degree animated artworks. This is Frameless, a new way of showing off art that aims to entertain more than to educate, but may occasionally trigger an interest in the old master paintings they have permission to reproduce.
  It’s quite impressive as an experience though.Entry is through a shop that doesn’t look like much is going on, but then down two sets of glittery space-age effect es
  
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• Free tours of the disused Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks

  07-10-2022 12:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Over the next couple of weeks, there is a chance to go on a tour of the decommissioned gasholders that dominate the view from the trains passing through West Ham station.The gasworks was established here by the Imperial Gas Imperial Gas Light & Coke Company in 1870. However, changes to the way gas is supplied to homes and businesses led to most of the original site being redeveloped, and the gasholders being decommissioned later in 2010. The site is now being earmarked for housing developmen
  
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• It looks like Musk was just trying to get the price down

  07-10-2022 11:00
  After all the fuss and drama of his bizarre legal drama with Twitter, new reports suggest it was all just a negotiating ploy by Elon Musk.
  When Musk first made his surprise bid to buy Twitter it was at a fairly hefty premium over the market price, although far from an exceptional one. Unsolicited acquisition bids generally try to make shareholders an offer they can’t refuse and it looks like Musk even threw in a cheeky reference to cannabis culture for a laugh.
  But soon after, the joke was
  
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• See a 72-foot space rocket in South Kensington next weekend

  07-10-2022 10:37 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The first ever orbital satellite launch from the UK is happening soon, and ahead of the launch, a full-size replica of the launch rocket will be on display outside the South Kensington museums for a couple of days.
  The 72ft life-size replica rocket will be on display together with a range of free hands-on educational activities hosted by the UK Space Agency, Spaceport Cornwall, Virgin Orbit, the Science Museum, Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum.
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• Bharti Airtel launches 5G, but will not charge more for now

  07-10-2022 10:00
  Bharti Airtel on Thursday made a formal announcement on the launch of 5G services in key Indian markets and revealed that it will not make customers pay more for the technology until its rollout is more widespread.
  The Indian press was full of the news of Bharti’s 5G launch earlier this week, the operator’s CEO Sunil Mittal having announced on Saturday that the network would go live later that day. As the Economic Times reported, Mittal’s announcement was all about being first
  
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• BT union plays blame game as 999 workers walk out

  07-10-2022 09:00
  Emergency services call handlers working for BT have carried out their threat to strike over pay.
  Some 500 employees whose job is to answer 999 calls on Thursday joined the 40,000 BT and Openreach staff on the picket line. Further walkouts are planned for next week and later this month.
  In a statement, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) once again blamed the situation on BT senior management’s refusal to enter into negotiations.
  “Time and time again, we’ve asked for negotiat
  
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