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• Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow Airport

  23-03-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A western rail link connecting Heathrow Airport to Reading and beyond is gaining political support after MPs backed the scheme.The rail link would leave the mainline railway to the north of Heathrow Airport and then run in a new tunnel to Terminal 5, where there is already a couple of platforms in an empty station waiting to be used. It’s expected that most services would terminate there, and passengers would swap services to get to the other terminals. In theory, the trains could also con
  
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• County Broadband breaks new ground in Suffolk

  23-03-2023 17:36
  County Broadband this week announced it has begun construction of a new full fibre network in Suffolk, thereby extending its East of England footprint.
  The news itself is hardly earth-shattering. Unless, perhaps, you happen to live in one of the nine villages covered by the new rollout and will therefore be able to choose fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), rather than the fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) offer that is already in place.
  But the announcement is interesting in the broader context of the UK m
  
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• Ofcom considering revoking unpaired 2100 MHz spectrum

  23-03-2023 17:31
  UK regulator Ofcom says licenses for unused 2100 MHz (1900-1920 MHz) spectrum may be revoked the and the spectrum reallocated.
  Ofcom says the current non-use (a bizarrely Orwellian turn of phrase) of the unpaired 2100 MHz spectrum for public mobile services and EE’s potential use of its 4G licence for the ESN Gateway ‘may not be optimal because there may be other higher value users of the spectrum.’
  It’s provisional view is that there is potential for the spectrum to be u
  
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• Kew Garden’s Great Pagoda reopens in April

  23-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of south London’s tallest buildings that the public can ascend to the top of reopens next month. This is the Great Pagoda insideKew Gardens , and it offers some remarkable views across southwest London.It was restored in 2018 after several decades of very rarely being opened to the public in recent decades. The reopening of the Pagoda also saw the legendary, and in some cases, controversial dragons restored to the outside, and the revelation of a secret WW2 research project that had im
  
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• Ramadan Lights switched on near Leicester Square

  23-03-2023 15:34 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A street in central London has become the city’s first to host aerial Ramadan Lights which will delight visitors for the month to come.Looking, to casual users, candidly not unlike Christmas decorations, you’ll quickly realise they’re very different, not indirectly helped by the Happy Ramadan signs at either end.
  It may seem odd to put Ramadan lights up next to Chinatown, but the area also has a sizeable Muslim community, and there were plans recently to convert a basement unde
  
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• At whose expense will Open RAN thrive?

  23-03-2023 14:16
  Figures for 2022 show that while the telecoms equipment market grew in 2022 by 3%, it’s a declining rate of growth. For an influx of firms to turn up on the scene and make everything more diverse, someone’s surely got to loose market share.
  Open RAN in a nutshell is an approach to building out mobile networks that makes bits and pieces of kit from different vendors work together, the point of this being an operator can pick a set of manufacturers to work with when planning infrastruc
  
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• India reiterates 6G launch plan, but it’s still just a vision

  23-03-2023 14:07
  India’s Narendra Modi is sticking by his aim of launching 6G services in the country by 2030, despite the fact that 5G is only six months old.
  To that end the prime minister on Wednesday presented a new 6G roadmap, known as Bharat 6G Vision, and launched a 6G R&D testbed, amongst other initiatives designed to assist with India’s digital transformation.
  But while Modi is naturally upbeat about his country’s position on the global technology stage, it’s hard to see past
  
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• TfL needs more Elizabeth line trains because of HS2 delays at Euston

  23-03-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning that delays to the HS2 railway may require it to buy more Elizabeth line trains to cope with the thousands of people dropped off at Old Oak Common needing to get into central London.The issue is that HS2 has pushed back when Euston station will open until the 2040s, leaving Old Oak Common station as the terminus for much longer than was currently expected. That means thousands of HS2 passengers will need to get to and from Old Oak Common station instead of E
  
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• Campaigners wary of EU’s right to repair rules

  23-03-2023 13:59
  The European Commission’s bid to tackle e-waste has been given a cool reception from environmentalists.
  Under the proposed rules introduced on Wednesday, sellers would be legally required to offer to repair products still covered by a guarantee, unless repair is more expensive than replacement. For products not covered by a guarantee, manufacturers would still be obliged to offer repairs for certain products that are technically repairable under EU law, like washing machines or TVs.
  The Co
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of 10 Downing Street’s back garden

  23-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to visit the private garden behind 10 Downing Street in June, as it will be open as part of Open Garden Squares Weekend.
  Unsurprisingly, tickets are being allocated by a ballot, so you can’t just romp up on the day for a look.
  Constructed in 1736, the garden is dominated by an open lawn with rose beds commissioned by the late Baroness Thatcher, and is home to a bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth. Expert gardeners will be on hand to answer questions about the half a
  
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• Pay a visit to Charles Darwin’s home at Down House

  23-03-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1842, Charles Darwin and his family moved to a large house on what is today the edges of Greater London, and today it’s a museum to his legacy that’s open to the public. The house is a decent-sized manor house with a large garden and shows off both the life and work of the man and the family life he enjoyed here.Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809, and by his own admission wasted the many good educational opportunities offered to him, which he neglected as he knew his fa
  
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