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• WWII air raid shelter discovered in southeast London

  11-11-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An early example of a WWII air raid shelter has been uncovered during building site clearance works in Plumstead, in southeast London.
  The newly discovered air raid shelter (c) PCA
  The air raid shelter was an unexpected discovery, as most are known about, and this one doesn’t seem to have been a private shelter, so would have been known about by the local community at the time. That makes its subsequent disappearance from the war records even more mysterious.
  The site of the discovery isn&
  
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• Euston station testing new departure display boards

  11-11-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Some new passenger information screens are being installed at London Euston station over the coming weeks to test how passengers react to them.
  Architect’s impression of how the new screens will look on Euston’s concourse (c) Network Rail
  Instead of just the huge departure boards that are above the entrances to platforms, two double-sided banks of full-colour displays are being built on posts in the middle of the concourse, at right angles to the main screens.
  Rather than everyone fa
  
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• The Woman in Black to close in the West End next March

  11-11-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It’s been playing in the West End for a third of a century, but you now have just four months to see Susan Hill’s, The Woman in Black as it’s finally closing its curtains next March.Following a Christmas production in 1987 as a low budget production in a Scarborough pub, the stage version of Susan Hill’s 1983 novel was brought to Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre in January 1989. Reviews were sufficiently encouraging (apart from The Independent, who regretted the producti
  
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• Qualcomm claims 5G SA mmWave breakthrough

  11-11-2022 12:43
  US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has managed to collaborate with some Chinese companies to hit the 7 Gbps mark over 5G.
  While the press release doesn’t explicitly say so, this milestone appears to have been achieved in a test environment but using commercially viable kit. The named partners in this test are ZTE, Nokia Shanghai Bell and CICT Mobile. We know it took place in China, but not the precise location, and that the test hit peak speeds of 7.1 Gbps download, 2.1 Gbps upload, and 3.6 ms
  
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• Orange opens 5G SA lab in Belgium

  11-11-2022 11:14
  The Belgian arm of operator group Orange has opened another 5G lab, this time in Liège, which is focused on standalone 5G use cases.
  Orange has been one of the more pro-active operators when it comes to trying to work out what the point of 5G is. This isn’t even its first 5G lab in Belgium, having opened one in Antwerp a year ago. Meanwhile France is the location for no less than Europe’s first 5G SA fully end-to-end experimental cloud network, as well as a special lab dedicat
  
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• TIM and DT continue the upbeat theme for European telcos

  11-11-2022 10:10
  Two major European telecoms operators gave industry watchers cause for optimism with their quarterly results announcements this week, reflecting a broader trend across the continent.
  Markets reacted positively to TIM’s third-quarter figures on Thursday, despite the fact that the Italian incumbent is still struggling in its domestic market; essentially, its operational figures show signs of improvement at home while its Brazilian business is driving topline growth. Meanwhile, further north
  
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