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• Islington’s Union Chapel gets £1 million heritage grant

  14-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Union Chapel, a nearly 150 year old church that has been for the past 30 years also a music venue, has received a £1 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.The funds will be used to carry out essential repairs to the Grade II* listed Sunday School building at the back of the Union Chapel, and also support the preservation of the chapel congregation’s 200-year historic archive.
  The archive project will transform the currently decaying, inaccessible collection into a
  
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• The US would never dare push ‘fair contribution’ onto big tech

  14-10-2022 16:00
  As the debate around ‘fair contribution’ – which asserts big tech firms like Netflix and Google should chip in for the costs of telecoms infrastructure – rolls on, we spoke to Maria Lema, co-founder of Weaver Labs, who told us why she thinks it’s a bad idea.
  Maria Lema is a PhD in Telecoms and Co-Founder of Weaver Labs, a UK start-up building Cell-Stack, a software product created to facilitate telecoms infrastructure integration and automation. At Weaver Labs, Mari
  
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• A special tube map is on display in the V&A Museum

  14-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A specially modified tube map that was released last year has been added to the V&A Museum’s collection and is on display at the moment in the museum’s rapid acquisition gallery.
  The reimagined map replaced station names across the tube map with notable Black people from history, with the associated Tube lines renamed to link them together by common themes – Firsts and Trailblazers; Georgians; Sports; Arts; LGBTQ+; Physicians; Performers; Literary World and Community Organi
  
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• The Flying Scotsman steam train is at King’s Cross station this weekend

  14-10-2022 13:53 via ianvisits.co.uk
  To mark both the 170th anniversary of King’s Cross station and the coming 100th anniversary of the Flying Scotsman, the world-famous steam train* is at King’s Cross station all weekend.The Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 as the first locomotive for the newly formed LNER (London and North Eastern Railway). Originally simply locomotive 1472, it gained its name in 1924 when it was selected to appear at the British Empire Exhibition in London and named after the daily 10am London to Ed
  
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• Only Fools and Horses theatre tickets from just £20

  14-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The famous BBC comedy, Only Fools and Horses has made a transition to the stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and there’s currently an offer on tickets to see it.The show’s creator and sole writer John Sullivan died in 2011 but his son Jim Sullivan has written the upcoming musical with comedian Paul Whitehouse.
  Running for a decade from 1981-1991 and Christmas specials through 2003, Only Fools and Horses was voted Britain’s most popular sitcom in a 2003 BBC poll. An episode o
  
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• Giganet and Cuckoo go on a recruitment drive

  14-10-2022 12:44
  Broadband firm Giganet, alongside its recently purchased consumer facing brand Cuckoo, will hire 250 people to run a series of new customer service hubs across the UK.
  As well as the customer service hubs, the raft of new hires will go towards bolstering the firms’ technology, marketing, ‘talent’, HR and finance divisions. It’s not clear exactly how many are going to which operation, but since Giganet bought Cuckoo earlier in the year they seem to be acting as one on this
  
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• Rumoured bank sale could prove costly for Orange

  14-10-2022 11:29
  Orange is playing its cards pretty close to its chest on the future of its banking business, but new rumours coming out of France suggest it could be looking to sell up.
  The operator group set tongues a-wagging this week with its reluctance to deny a French press report that it is working with investment bank Lazard on a possible sale or new partnership for Orange Bank.
  “In a very strong competitive environment in the banking market, Orange is considering all opportunities to develop Orang
  
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• Amazon delays first Kuiper satellite launch until 2023

  14-10-2022 11:22
  Hyperscaler Amazon has opted to use a different rocket company for the launch of its first Project Kuiper satellites.
  The change, from ABL Space Systems’ RS1 rocket to United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket, has led to the lift-off date for Amazon’s long-awaited Starlink competitor being pushed back until early next year. The launch of two prototype low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites was originally scheduled to take place during Q4 2022.
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• London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks to return this year

  14-10-2022 09:27 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After a gap of a couple of years due to that damned thing, the New Year’s Eve fireworks in central London are back again.
  The fireworks have taken place during the pandemic, but for broadcast on telly, but this year, 100,000 tickets will be issued to the public to gather along the Embankment and watch them from the London Eye on NYE once again.
  (c) Mayor of London / GLA
  Tickets will need to be bought in advance and cost £15 – with the money used to pay for the costs associated
  
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