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• Simpson’s Tavern granted protection as it fights to reopen

  15-12-2022 17:56 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The ancient Simpson’s Tavern in the City of London, which was forced into sudden closure by the landlord, has been given protection against being sold off in a decision described as a “no brainer” by the proposer of the protection order.Like most restaurants, Simpsons was forced to close during the lockdown and says that it was seeking to negotiate a settlement on rent that the landlord was still demanding to be paid in full. A lot of landlords have been fair in treating long-s
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit Diamond Light Source – the UK’s largest particle accelerator

  15-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  In the countryside not far from Didcot can be found a stunning flying saucer of a building, which also happens to house the UK’s national synchrotron, and they open it up to the public for free tours.
  (c) Diamond Light Source
  A synchrotron is essentially a large particle accelerator, but rather than smashing atoms together to study them, as is done at CERN, here, they are used to generate powerful light beams that can be used to study the inside of materials.
  And the entire facility sits i
  
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• EE extends 4G coverage to 500 rural areas

  15-12-2022 14:55
  UK operator EE served up 4G to an additional rural 500 locations over past year, covering over 420 square miles.
  Following the extension, EE says it intends to hook up another 900 areas to its 4G network by 2024, in what it calls its Shared Rural Network programme, as it reaches for 95% coverage. In total, EE boasts it has upgraded 1362 sites since this programme began in March 2020.
  There is an effort to tie this rollout in particular to road coverage over the Christmas period – and while
  
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• US government will monitor Ericsson for an extra year

  15-12-2022 13:35
  Swedish kit maker Ericsson has revealed it needs an extra 12 months of monitoring just to make absolutely sure it doesn’t risk giving money to terrorists.
  The company initially agreed back in late 2019 to let the US Department of Justice (DoJ) keep an eye on it for a period of three years, ending June 2023. It was part of a SEK10.1 billion settlement of corruption charges related to its conduct in China, Djibouti, Indonesia, Kuwait and Vietnam.
  Then, earlier this year, details of an intern
  
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• UK fibre rollout is booming but take-up is lagging – Ofcom

  15-12-2022 13:23
  The availability of full fibre broadband in the UK has grown rapidly over the past year, but convincing consumers to sign up remains a challenge, one that Ofcom has now taken up.
  The UK telecoms regulator published the 2022 edition of its annual Connected Nations report on Thursday, which showed that full fibre broadband now passes 42 percent of UK households, or around 12.4 million. That’s an increase of 4.3 million households over 12 months, the market’s biggest annual growth rate
  
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• Microsoft partners with Viasat in a bid to improve global connectivity

  15-12-2022 13:15
  US tech giant Microsoft has augmented its Airband initiative, designed to connect the unconnected, by partnering with satellite player Viasat.
  They reckon the new partnership will help deliver internet access to ten million previously unconnected people around the world, including five million in Africa. This is apparently the first time Microsoft has incorporated a satellite player into Airband, despite that being one of the most obvious ways of compensating for inadequate terrestrial comms inf
  
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• Proactively Managing Broadband Services in Today’s Highly Connected World

  15-12-2022 13:08
  By Pete Koat, Chief Operating Officer at Incognito Software Systems
  Introduction
  Success in today’s world of broadband services management hinges on the three “P”s: predicting, preventing, and being proactive. Fixing failures is no longer sufficient – today’s customers expect always-on, always-fast service.
  It might be a high bar to meet, but if you do, the rewards are considerable: enhanced customer satisfaction, reduced churn, and a healthy bottom-line.
  So, how do
  
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• National Portrait Gallery confirms it will reopen in June 2023

  15-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After three years of closure for rebuilding works, the National Portrait Gallery has confirmed that it will reopen its doors on 22 June 2023, following the most significant redevelopment in its history.
  The new entrance courtyard (c) National Portrait Gallery
  Although the building has been closed to the public for the past three years, the gallery itself didn’t close as they ran an outreach programme sharing paintings from the collection with venues across the UK, and overseas.
  When it reo
  
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• Supporting Service Providers on Their Journey to Net Zero

  15-12-2022 12:36
  The telecom industry needs to act urgently for the climate, in its Smart 2020 report, the International Telecom Union (ITU) estimates that the ICT industry generates approximately 2% of global emissions and it urges information and communication technology (ICT) organizations to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, if possible, or 2050 at the latest, and has published guidance on how to set net-zero targets.
  CommScope has a clear vision and roadmap for the development of a more
  
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• South Western Railway cutting train services over Christmas due to staff shortages

  15-12-2022 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  South Western Railway (SWR) is warning passengers that it will be running a severely reduced service over the Christmas period due to a shortage of staff.
  Disruption map (c) SWR
  Members of the RMT union who work forSWR are holding industrial action which includes a ban on overtime and working on rest days, leaving the train company short of staff over the Christmas period.
  TheRMT action affects people in a variety of roles, including guards on trains as well as dispatchers on platforms and shunt
  
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• The Bourne Valley Wharf pavilion

  15-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  What looks like an old water tank next to the Thames is actually a raised garden, that just happens to be in what looks like an old water tank, but is in fact a modern water tank clad in copper painted steel panels.
  This is the Bourne Valley Wharf pavilion, a public artwork added a few years ago as part of the wider Nine Elms regeneration.The steel and timber structure that the pavilion is made from references the industrial heritage of the area, and what looks like an old miniature railway wate
  
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