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• UK warns mobile and broadband groups against 14% price rise

  18-01-2023 16:51 via ft.com
  Culture secretary says increases are ‘not the right thing’ as households face squeeze
  
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• Derelict Silvertown site set for £3.5 billion development

  18-01-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The formal planning application has been filed to redevelop one of the last large unbuilt sites in the docklands area — the huge Silvertown site in Newham.
  Masterplan layout (c) Lendlease planning application
  The land has been derelict since the docks closed in 1981, and was partially cleared in 1990s.
  Approvals have been given in the past for the site to be redeveloped but the site has been subjected to repeated delays. However, last year a new group came forward with plans for a £3
  
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• DT named most valuable brand in Europe

  18-01-2023 13:10
  German operator group Deutsche Telekom is celebrating moving to the top of the European league in a new brand value study.
  According to the Brand Finance Global 500, DT is the 11th most valuable brand in the world, up from 17th a year ago. That improvement enabled it to leapfrog compatriot brand Mercedes Benz to become the most valuable brand in Europe. Among the global telcos it is second only to perennial top 10 Verizon, but well ahead of 26th-placed AT&T. No other European operators even
  
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• Smartphone shipments fell to a 10-year low in 2022

  18-01-2023 13:05
  Preliminary stats from Canalys suggest the global smartphone market had a year to forget in 2022.
  Before getting into the numbers, it is worth mentioning that the two biggest players in the market, Apple and Samsung, have yet to publish their results for the final three months of the year. These are due to come out on 2 February and 31 January respectively. Xiaomi’s latest quarterly report isn’t out yet either, so it is fair to say there is a degree of calculated guesswork going on h
  
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• Georgian fashion to be explored by The Queen’s Gallery

  18-01-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Queen’s Gallery next to Buckingham Palace will be taking a look at the fashions of the Georgian era in a new exhibition opening this spring.
  Extract from David Garrick with his Wife Eva-Maria Veigel by William Hogarth (c) Royal Collection Trust
  From the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court, the exhibition will bring together over 200 works from the Royal Collection, including paintings, prints and drawings by artists such as Gainsborough, Zoffany and H
  
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• e& buys up more of rudderless Vodafone

  18-01-2023 12:57
  e& has acquired another tranche of Vodafone shares taking its stake in the troubled international telecoms group to 12%.
  The United Arab Emirates-based operator made the purchase on Tuesday, it revealed in a brief statement to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. As such, it now holds 3.27 billion Vodafone shares and has upped its stake from the 11% it claimed after a similar purchase in December and the initial 9.8% holding it acquired for US$4.4 billion back in May.
  The motivation behind the
  
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• Government urged to reform transport regulation to encourage commercial drone space

  18-01-2023 12:51
  The Drone Delivery Group has submitted a white paper to the government urging changes in established air, sea and land transport regulations that could stifle the burgeoning drone sector in the UK.
  The Drone Delivery group – a collective of 400 ‘drone industry experts’ – has submitted a white paper to the government which urges some joined up thinking regarding transportation laws that might effect commercial drones in the future, calling for ‘a harmonised and coord
  
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• Transport for London fares to rise by 5.9% from March

  18-01-2023 11:47 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Mayor of London has announced that Transport for London (TfL) fares will rise by 5.9% from 5th March 2023 – which is in line with the Government’s increase to national rail fares.The fares rise was required to at least match the national fares increase as part of the government funding agreement, otherwise, TfL would need to find the gap from its own resources. However, the fares rise is below the rate of inflation, so while beneficial for customers, will put added pressure on Tf
  
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• Pollock’s Toy Museum forced to close

  18-01-2023 09:39 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Central London’s wonderfully quirky toy museum has been forced to close after it was unable to secure a new lease with the landlords.The museum, just off Tottenham Court Road, as with many organisations, struggled during the pandemic but seemed to have recovered and along with its associated toy shop seemed to be recovering well. The museum, housed in an old Georgian building, had closed for its Christmas break, seemingly expecting to open this week, but the museum is now half empty and th
  
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• Kensington’s mobile memorial to Queen Victoria

  18-01-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At the western end of Kensington High Street is a tall stone column memorial to Queen Victoria, but it used to be at the eastern end of High Street. It moved.There are few post-mortem memorials to Queen Victoria as most of the statues we see date from before her death. That’s because most of the funding after her death was for the national memorial that sits outside Buckingham Palace.
  That Kensington has a memorial is a quirk, thanks to the Mayor of Kensington, Sir Seymour King being a bit
  
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