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• Parliament to offer public tours of Big Ben next month

  21-03-2023 17:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s now possible to climb to the top of the Elizabeth Tower and stand in ear-banging distance of Big Ben as it bongs the hours.Following its restoration, these are preview tours, and will lead you up a narrow 334-step spiral stairwell to the Belfry where Big Ben, the Great Bell, hangs. Along the route, your guide will reveal details of the most extensive and complex conservation project in Big Ben’s 160 years.
  On this preview tour you will see the inner workings of the clock mechani
  
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• HS2 archaeology exhibition opens in central London

  21-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The clearance of the burial site for Euston’s new HS2 railway station is the topic of a new exhibition that’s opened in Piccadilly.The St James’s Burial Ground was an overflow site for St James’s Church on Piccadilly after it ran out of space, and when it finally closed, there were an estimated 50,000 burials, which had to be carefully excavated and moved.
  A project of that sort is not just a sensitive removal of human remains, but also an opportunity to learn about the p
  
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• Hungary tightens state telecoms control with Yettel share swap

  21-03-2023 13:33
  The Hungarian government has increased its holding in mobile operator Yettel as part of an ongoing strategy to tighten state control over its telecoms sector.
  It’s a complex share swap deal, but the key takeaway is that the Hungarian state has picked up a 25% indirect stake in the country’s second-biggest mobile operator in exchange for some of its holding in Vodafone Hungary. And that enables it to have a bigger presence in telecoms.
  “The transaction will further increase the
  
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• Hungary tightens state control with Yettel share swap

  21-03-2023 13:33
  The Hungarian government has increased its holding in mobile operator Yettel as part of an ongoing strategy to tighten state control in the telecoms sector.
  It’s a complex share swap deal, but the key takeaway is that the Hungarian state has picked up a 25% indirect stake in the country’s second-biggest mobile operator in exchange for some of its holding in Vodafone Hungary. And that enables it to have a bigger presence in telecoms.
  “The transaction will further increase the Hu
  
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• Amazon culls another 9,000 jobs

  21-03-2023 13:07
  Just months after announcing a huge round of layoffs, US hyperscaler Amazon is preparing to wield the axe once again.
  The company announced on Monday that another 9,000 staff will be shown the door. This time around the cuts will be made at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Advertising, and its Twitch streaming service. Further cuts are also being made to the People, Experience, and Technology (PXT) unit, which is essentially Amazon’s HR department.
  “As we’ve just concluded the second
  
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• Tickets Alert: Free tours of the Chatley Heath semaphore tower

  21-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A unique remnant from the Napoleonic era, the only surviving semaphore tower in Britain can be found next to the M25 and is having a free open weekend in June.
  (c) Landmark Trust
  It was once a cutting-edge building at the forefront of technology and design, a vital link in a signalling chain that transmitted semaphore messages from Admiralty House in London to Portsmouth Docks in just a few minutes. Once semaphores went the way of the Dodo, it was occupied as a home until the 1960s, and was badl
  
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• Premium priced phones now represent over half the market revenue

  21-03-2023 12:39
  Despite ongoing global economic woes, more expensive phones – specifically ones that cost over $600 – represented 55% of overall handset revenue last year.
  It’s the first time the premium market revenue has represented ‘more than half’ of the global smartphone market, which fell by 12% overall in 2022 according to a report from Counterpoint Research. Premium phones also accounted for more than one-fifth of total global smartphone sales.
  In fact, handsets priced at $
  
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• Step-free upgrade for Hither Green station gets planning approval

  21-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hither Green station in southeast London will gain step-free access after Lewisham Council approved plans from Network Rail for a new entrance, footbridge and lifts.
  Approved plan for step-free access (c) Network Rail
  The station is raised up on an embankment, and at the moment, the entrance to the station is through an underpass (bottom left of the photo above) that runs under the railway with a ramp up to the platforms.
  Network Rail intends to build a new entrance at the other end of the platf
  
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