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• TfL to slash another £600 million from its annual budget by 2026

  01-12-2022 18:56 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Transport for London (TfL) has outlined a new business plan for the years ahead and says that it needs to make additional cost cuts of around £600 million per year by 2025/26.
  Waterloo station Northern line
  Although TfL says that it has delivered £400m of the £730m recurring savings target that was set in 2019, the pressures of managing inflation and the requirements of the most recent funding agreement mean that further efficiencies are needed. Therefore, the savings target in
  
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• UK regulator to investigate mobile and broadband price rises

  01-12-2022 16:50 via ft.com
  Ofcom responds to complaints about the transparency of in-contract fee increases
  
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• London exhibitions to visit in December 2022

  01-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in December as a break from office parties and trying to remember how to use postage stamps to send Christmas cards.Cancer Revolution: Science, innovation and hope
  Science Museum, South Kensington
  Free
  With over 100 objects and numerous personal accounts, the exhibition brings to life the stories of people affected by cancer, together with those who study and treat it, revealing how researchers, clinicians, policymakers and patients are fuelling
  
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• Restored painting of the Nativity by Piero goes on display at the National Gallery

  01-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A painting has gone on display at the National Gallery that was so controversial when it was bought that the Prime Minister was involved in the fuss. And the topic of this controversial painting — nothing less than the Nativity of Jesus Christ.The topic of the painting, by the Italian artist Piero della Francesca, wasn’t the problem, but the condition of it was and even the suspicion that the National Gallery had just paid a lot of money for a painting that wasn’t even finished
  
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• Italian government cans existing single network plan

  01-12-2022 12:52
  The Italian government has formally brought to a close the long-running plan to create a single fixed network from TIM’s assets and those of Open Fiber, but the story does not end there.
  TIM responded by declaring its “openness to discussion” when it comes to setting out a new single network plan, as well as confirming that the deal inked by its and Open Fiber’s shareholders last May may now be considered null and void.
  As a quick reminder, TIM, Open Fiber, CDP Equity &nd
  
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• Orange wants to somehow reduce energy consumption with 5G

  01-12-2022 12:47
  European operator Orange says it is stepping up efforts to reduce energy consumption across Europe by deploying 5G.
  Orange says it is on a mission to reduce stress on energy networks across Europe and it is doing this by deploying ‘the latest generation of equipment, in particular 5G’ which it says can save energy.
  This is all part of the firm’s aim to becoming ‘net zero carbon’ (there are a few variations on this term flying about) by 2040, and we’re told tha
  
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• Blow to OneWeb as UK government picks Starlink for satellite network

  01-12-2022 12:43
  Mountain rescue, historic monks, and a scout camp are among the beneficiaries of the UK government’s new satellite broadband trials.
  The department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on Wednesday announced plans to see whether low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites represent a viable means of providing Internet connectivity to the most remote parts of the country. 12 sites have been identified for the trial, including a 12th Century abbey in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, a m
  
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• Ofcom jumps the gun with chief censor appointment

  01-12-2022 12:37
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has anticipated the passing of the controversial Online Safety Bill by creating a new division to police online content.
  Gill Whitehead (pictured) will join Ofcom as Group Director, Online Safety in April of next year. That’s around the time the latest version of the Online Safety Bill is expected to pass through Parliament. Ofcom says the law will hand it ‘a remit and powers to help create a safer life online’, part of which will involve ‘regulat
  
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• New London to Wales train service gets permission to start

  01-12-2022 12:06 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new train operator has been given permission to start offering services between Paddington station and South Wales.
  Concept for train interior – not final design (c) Grand Union Trains
  The new open access operator, Grand Union Trains, plans to run trains fast between Paddington and Bristol Parkway, and then stop at a number of stations to Carmarthen, including options to call at two new stations being planned for south Wales.
  The first, called variously the West Wales Parkway or Swansea
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Nelson Square Garden, SE1

  01-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a large municipal square in Southwark surrounded on most sides by post-war housing blocks but was built as a square surrounded by Georgian housing.Long before the area was developed into housing, it was part of a cluster of Tenter Grounds, for drying newly manufactured cloth after fulling. The wet cloth was hooked onto frames called “tenters” and stretched taut using “tenter hooks”, so that the cloth would dry flat and square.
  The road to the south of Nelson Squar
  
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