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• Callipygian Christmas tree decorations from the National Gallery

  03-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The National Gallery would like you to hang some naked bodies from your Christmas tree this year.
  Yes, really!
  Spotted in their gift shop when leaving from the free Turner on Tour exhibition, these gold and silver torsos are an unusual addition to the panoply of traditional items that hang from Christmas trees.Offered in male or female forms, you may be preferring to position them on your trees with torso forwards, or showing off their shapely bums instead.
  The shapely callipygian Christmas tree
  
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• Vantage Towers could seal KKR deal within days

  03-11-2022 18:22
  KKR has emerged as the favourite to acquire a stake in Vodafone’s towers business and could broker a deal very soon, if it gets its way, it emerged this week.
  The private equity firm has teamed up with Global Infrastructure Partners in the race to buy into Vantage Towers, the passive infrastructure outfit spun out of Vodafone just under two years ago, and is now the front runner, Bloomberg reported, citing the usual unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
  The pair are up against a joint
  
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• UK government set to drop absurd attempt to censor ‘legal but harmful’ content

  03-11-2022 16:33
  There are reports that the UK government intends to resurrect the troubled online safety bill, but without its most controversial component.
  First introduced by then DCMS head Nadine Dorries under the Boris Johnson government, the bill immediately encountered opposition. Its stated aim of introducing extra protections for children when they are online was laudable and broadly supported, how could it not be? But, as is so often the way with legislation, a bunch of other state powers were also thr
  
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• London’s newest concert hall opens in Nine Elms

  03-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London’s first purpose built concert hall in nearly a decade has opened in Nine Elms, for a music education charity that supports young people who would otherwise be unable to have access to instruments and recording spaces.The chairity, World Heart Beat was founded in Southfields in 2012, and has been able to expand into a new venue in Nine Elms, next to the US Embassy, and here they’ve opened both a new concert hall and also a series of rooms that can be used for rehearsals and les
  
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• Lights out for Lumen in EMEA

  03-11-2022 13:54
  UK-based Colt Technology Services this week agreed to pay $1.8bn for US counterpart Lumen’s Europe, Middle East and Africa business.
  The deal will increase Colt’s already sizeable network footprint in the region, giving it a presence in more countries, and more European cities and data centres. It also strengthens Colt’s portfolio of solutions for enterprise, hyperscaler, government and wholesale customers.
  “This transaction would mark the next chapter in Colt’s exc
  
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• Capgemini adds weight to UK Sonic Open RAN initiative

  03-11-2022 13:49
  French technology consulting company Capgemini is joining Sonic Labs, an Open RAN initiative funded by the UK government.
  Sonic was first announced almost two years ago and formally launched in the summer of 2021. It’s part of the UK state sponsored Digital Catapult technology incubation initiative and is focused on Open RAN. As you would expect from something like this, it’s all about getting techies together to find common ground and make sure the stuff they’re working on is
  
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• BT tightens its belt to the tune of £500 million

  03-11-2022 13:20
  BT has announced an additional half a billion pounds worth of cost savings to its target for the next couple of years due to inflation and a growing capex burden associated with network rollout.
  The UK incumbent shared the news alongside a reasonable set of first-half financials that showed small increases in revenue and earnings, and growth in its fibre network footprint.
  But the headline was chief executive Philip Jansen’s revelation that he plans to extend his cost-cutting goal, a goal
  
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• London’s ice skating rinks for winter 2022/23

  03-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over.
  In alphabetical order…Battersea Power Station
  11th Nov 2022 to 8th Jan 2023
  Brand new for this year, a large outdoor ice-rink outside the power station and next to the riverside.
  Prices:
  All over the place, and seems to vary wildly throughout the day. Adults said to start at £12, children from £8 and family tickets from £36.
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• BT calls on Sunak government to extend ‘super-deduction’ tax relief

  03-11-2022 12:34 via ft.com
  Telecoms group raises cost-savings target and warns of job losses as it battles inflationary pressures
  
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• BT raises cost savings target as it battles inflationary pressures

  03-11-2022 09:29 via ft.com
  Telecom’s group to increase prices in attempt to mitigate soaring costs
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Owens Field, EC1

  03-11-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This pocket park close to Angel tube station has existed ever since the area around it was turned from fields into houses, but for most of its life, it wasn’t a space for the public to use – it was a school playground.It owes its origins, and the name, to Alice Wilkes, who was born in 1547, and legend has it that while either playing or milking a cow (the story varies), someone nearby fired an arrow that only just missed her (or hit her hat). As people were inclined to do at the time
  
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