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• RMT announces new rail strike for Christmas Eve

  05-12-2022 20:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The rail union, the RMT has announced another train strike is to take place on Christmas Eve. The newest strike will take place from 6pm on Christmas Eve and last until 6am on 27th December.
  The extra strike will affect members who work for Network Rail as well as the train operating companies. It’ll affect the public trying to get home on in the evening on Christmas Eve or travel on Boxing Day. The strike may also affect Network Rail’s planned engineering works over Christmas, as it
  
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• Christmas themed tours of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre

  05-12-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Hear how Christmas was observed in Shakespeare’s time and the folk traditions that people practiced to welcome in winter.
  From wassailing to the winter solstice, ‘kissing boughs’ to proper mince pyes, this family-friendly guided tour will tell the stories of Tudor Christmases and the traditions that are embedded in Shakespeare’s plays.
  The tours are of the Globe theatre on the Southbank, but with a festive focus for this time of year.
  The tours last an hour and cost
  
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• Government tries to think of ways to accelerate the UK’s chip production

  05-12-2022 18:05
  A new ‘national institution’ could be set up as part of plans to boost the UK’s semiconductor industry.
  The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is commissioning some research looking at the feasibility of some new national initiatives which have the ultimate goal of growing the UK’s semiconductor industry, presumably in response to the global chip shortages that have been a pain in the neck for all sorts of reasons over the last few years.
  Items on the
  
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• Tickets Alert: London Open Gardens is back

  05-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The annual weekend of opening up loads of private gardens and large garden squares will return next year, and discounted tickets are now on sale.
  K+K George Hotel
  Typically around 100 gardens open their gates to the public, and most of them are the usually private squares in central London that are usually only open to local residents. There’s also a scattering of interesting gardens, such as hotel spaces, some rooftops and some award-winning gardens.
  It’s a bit like Open House Weeke
  
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• Vodafone needs a radical new chief to bring about real change

  05-12-2022 15:48
  Ousting Nick Read is an overdue but insufficient step on the way to improving the telecoms company
  
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• The carbon footprint of watching Netflix

  05-12-2022 15:30
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece telecoms engineer Natalia Molinero Mingorance looks at the environmental implications of the video streaming revolution.
  Video streaming is widely used in many areas such as entertainment, social media, and online education. The consumption of video has dramatically increased during the last decade, lately accelerated with the deployment of 5G which allows
  
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• Musk begins to deliver on Twitter promise

  05-12-2022 15:20
  New Twitter owner Elon Musk has collaborated with an independent reporter to reveal some internal details behind the decision to censor a major piece of political reporting.
  Back in October of 2020, not long before the US general election, the New York Post wrote a story alleging corruption on the part of Joe Biden, the Democrat Presidential candidate. Soon after its publication both Facebook and Twitter acted to prevent its distribution on their platforms, with even direct messages containing l
  
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• Vodafone: departure of Nick Read should accelerate restructuring

  05-12-2022 15:12
  Continuity is the last thing the UK-listed telecoms group needs
  
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• Bharti Airtel and Meta to extend subsea cable to India

  05-12-2022 15:12
  Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced a collaborative project with Meta to extend the 2Africa Pearls subsea cable, which connects Africa, Europe, and Asia, to India.
  2Africa is a subsea cable system, and Airtel and Meta will essentially be hooking up a recent extension of it called 2Africa Pearls to Airtel’s landing station in Mumbai, providing more dedicated capacity to bolster the operator’s submarine network portfolio.
  Airtel says the 2Africa cable will significantly boost I
  
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• Vodafone Chief Exec throws in the towel

  05-12-2022 15:10
  Nick Read (pictured), the Chief Executive of UK-based operator group Vodafone, is stepping down from his role at the end of this year, with no permanent replacement named.
  No specific reasons have been offered, so this seems like a decision by the board that, having given Read more than four years to turn the ship around, the time has come for some new ideas at the top. While he’s formally stepping down at the end of this year, CFO Margherita Della Valle has been appointed interim Group Ch
  
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• Ride in a 1950s vintage bus on Christmas Day

  05-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On the day when tubes, trains, buses and even cable cars go to sleep, there will be one bus company offering a very special Christmas Day service. On Christmas Day, a vintage bus hire company will be offering a free vintage bus service on Route 430 between Roehampton and Putney Bridge.
  (c) 1950s vintage bus hire
  The staff, all volunteers are doing it, they say for fun, goodwill, and, as they admit, to promote their vintage bus hire.
  This is not a TfL or London General service, but the bus is run
  
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• Photo highlights from the 2022 Glotel Awards

  05-12-2022 11:42
  Couldn’t make the Glotels last week? We’ve got you covered with these photographic highlights from the night.
  The Glotel Awards returned to London as a live, in-person event with a bang last Thursday, with a shortlist of over 100 companies representing an excellent snapshot of the past year in the telecoms business. Check out the highlights from the evening below.
   
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• Vodafone chief Nick Read to step down

  05-12-2022 08:24
  Finance head Margherita Della Valle to take over on interim basis
  
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• Vodafone chief executive Nick Read to step down this month

  05-12-2022 08:24
  Finance chief Margherita Della Valle to serve on interim basis
  
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• London’s Alleys: Stanhope Mews East, SW7

  05-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a former stables mews that’s now expensive homes a stones through from South Kensington’s museums.This part of Brompton was originally bought by William Methwold in the 1630s after he became rich trading on behalf of the East India Company. The estate stayed in the family until William Methwold’s grandson left his entire estate to Captain John Fleming, an officer he served with in the military. Ahem.
  John Fleming was later Baronet Fleming of Brompton Park, and his daugh
  
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