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• Stratford station will be easier to use with new entrance being built

  19-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work has started on building a new entrance at Stratford station in East London which will make it much easier for people living to the west of the station to use get to the trains.
  New southwestern entrance (c) Planning documents – Hawkins\Brown Architects
  At the moment, Stratford station’s main entrance faces the old town, with new entrances linking it with the Westfield shopping centre and Olympic Park. However, although the station building is right next to the Carpenters Estate
  
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• Stratford station to be easier to use with new entrance being built

  19-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work has started on building a new entrance at Stratford station in East London which will make it much easier for people living to the west of the station to use get to the trains.
  New southwestern entrance (c) Planning documents – Hawkins\Brown Architects
  At the moment, Stratford station’s main entrance faces the old town, with new entrances linking it with the Westfield shopping centre and Olympic Park. However, although the station building is right next to the Carpenters Estate
  
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• UK fibre and 5G rollout momentum continues

  19-05-2023 13:37
  UK comms regulator Ofcom has released an update to its Connected Nations report, which shows the country is nearing 50% full fibre coverage.
  In the previous report, Ofcom told us the number of premises that had access to full fibre had jumped from 28% to 42% over the course of 2022. Five months later that figure stands at 48%, indicating the 2022 rate has been more or less retained this year.
  If that continues, we will hit 50% by the summer holidays and be closing on 60% by the end of the year.
  
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• Book Review: London’s South Bank The History by Mireille Galinou

  19-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A richly illustrated book has taken on the challenge of trying to tell the history of London’s South Bank region, which is more difficult than might seem at first glance.Unlike say the City, the Southbank is not a single area under single control, and was until the 18th century very much still a lot of fields and not a lot of buildings. Knitting this disparate patch of small villages into a single volume of history is going to be a challenge.
  What Mireille Galinou has done to create a book
  
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• Ten new plays for £5 each at the National Theatre’s Connections Festival

  19-05-2023 12:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, the National Theatre is celebrating youth theatre as ten youth theatre companies and school groups from across the UK will stage new plays in the Dorfman Theatre as part of its 2023 Connections Festival.Now in its 28th year, this annual nationwide youth theatre festival promises to be a celebration of young talent. Over 5,600 young individuals will take the stage, bringing to life ten brand-new plays crafted by a diverse array of established and emerging playwrights. Among the contr
  
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• ITU seeks $100 billion to close digital divide

  19-05-2023 10:50
  The ITU marked this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) with the launch of an ambitious new fundraising effort.
  The UN’s telco agency wants to increase the targeted value of pledges to connect what it refers to as the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) from $30 billion to $100 billion by 2026 – a not insignificant amount of money.
  The fundraising is managed by Partner2Connect, a UN multi-agency programme to connect the unconnected. Whi
  
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• Many UK consumers ‘priced out’ of broadband

  19-05-2023 10:44
  As many as 1 million people in the UK disconnected their broadband service in the past 12 months for financial reasons, a high-profile charity claimed this week.
  Citizens Advice made that fairly astonishing claim based on a survey carried out earlier this year. Those 1 million people cut the broadband cord because they couldn’t afford the service, the charity said, and – unsurprisingly – those on low incomes were the hardest hit.
  6% of the people surveyed claiming Universal Cre
  
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