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• UK’s largest ever pour of low-carbon concrete at HS2’s Euston station site

  25-10-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A foundation slab has been poured for HS2’s new Euston station using a type of concrete that emits far less CO2 than normal construction grade concretes.
  The foundation slab will support polymer silos used for future piling works at the north end of the Euston station site. Whilst the foundation is temporary, it will be in use for two years, and historically would have been constructed with a more traditional cement-based concrete.
  Earth Friendly Concrete (EFC) is made from a combination o
  
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• UK raises questions over Big Tech’s encroachment into financial services

  25-10-2022 17:49
  UK regulatory body the Financial Conduct Authority has published some thoughts on the potential competition impacts of Big Tech’s entry into the finance sector, and is seeking views on the matter.
  While there is no formal rule changes or regulation being mentioned as yet, the FCA has published some analysis looking at the potential impact of Big Tech’s entry into payments, deposit taking, consumer credit and insurance from a competition standpoint. It has done this in order to kick o
  
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• China Unicom Won the “Leading Connected Smart Home Operator” Award at BBWF 2022, Leading Global Home Broadband Innovation

  25-10-2022 17:29
  [Netherlands, Amsterdam, October 19, 2022] At the award ceremony of the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) 2022, China Unicom won the “Leading Connected Smart Home Operator” award, proving its strength as a leader in the digital home field. BBWF is the most important annual event in the fixed network industry. It has been held for 21 times so far. The “Leading Connected Smart Home Operator” award is designed to recognize operators with outstanding innovations and practices in t
  
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• Tickets Alert: Son-et-Lumiere to fill St Martin-in-the-Fields

  25-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For one week, the interior and outside of St Martin-in-the-Fields will be filled with sound and light as a Son-et-Lumiere covers the walls with colour. Installations of sound and light art will take visitors on a journey through space, to see galaxies emerge, and a chance to explore humanities ambition to adventure beyond.
  (c) St Martin-in-the-Fields
  The exterior of St Martin in the fields will be adorned with sound and light art where viewers can be drawn to the impact of the architecture and w
  
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• Trains now more popular than planes for London to Edinburgh trips

  25-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Lower fares and more trains on the route between London and Edinburgh have lured more people to ditch the plane in favour of the train, according to analysis of flight and train traffic.Citing information from both the Civil Aviation Authority data and rail industry sales data, Lumo says that for the first time over half (57%) of journeys between Edinburgh and London were by rail between April and August, compared to a pre-pandemic position of 35%.
  Some 63% of travellers chose rail over domestic
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Railway Fields, N4

  25-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a former railway depot that’s now a nature reserve and has a plant that’s unique to the area, albeit not one you would want in your back gardenThis is the appropriately named Railway Fields, and is a densely wooded patch of wildlife sitting next to the London Overground in Harringay, and still has bits of old railway heritage lurking in the undergrowth to discover.
  The railway depot, officially the Harringay Park Green Lanes Goods Deport was quite modest, being not much more
  
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