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• New range to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground

  25-05-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Transport Museum has launched a new range of accessories to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground, using designs created by the same team that design the tube’s moquette seats.
  London based Wallace#Sewell are the team behind the moquette designs for the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Overground, and most recently the Elizabeth line. They’ve now created a design to mark the tube’s 160th anniversary for sale the museum.
  The new range of accessories are also being made in t
  
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• V&A opens the UK’s largest permanent photography gallery

  25-05-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The UK’s largest permanent photography display has been completed inside the V&A Museum in the last stage of several expansions over the past few years.The museum is home to a large collection dating back to the earliest days of photography, but until recently, the only display space was a small room on the ground floor.
  In 2011, they moved to the first floor, taking over a long gallery that doubled the space available. The V&A’s own collection of around half a million photos
  
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• Purfleet-on-Thames railway station set for major rebuild as plans submitted for approval

  25-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Long standing plans to move and rebuild a little railway station currently serving the Essex town of Purfleet-on-Thames have advanced as the formal planning application has been submitted to the council for approval.
  View from New London Road looking north (c) AHMM Architects
  The impetus to upgrade the station comes from plans for a major redevelopment of the area around it to replace light industrial sites with nearly 3,000 new homes, and the current station is not just unable to cope with incr
  
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• EU’s ‘grey areas’ approach to M&A could benefit European telcos

  25-05-2023 12:51
  The European Commission had stressed that its approach to mergers and acquisitions is far from being black and white, thus offering encouragement to operators with an eye on consolidation.
  The Commission’s EVP in charge of competition policy, Margrethe Vestager, delivered a keynote address at the International Forum of antitrust association the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht in Brussels on Thursday that was clearly designed to demonstrate that the EU is making an effort to cut red tape in
  
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• Global Open RAN and vRAN market growth slowed in Q1

  25-05-2023 12:41
  New stats from research firm Dell’Oro suggest that the 2023 Open RAN market won’t see a repeat of last year’s stellar performance.
  Global Open RAN revenue increased by 10-20 percent in the first three months of the year, while the vRAN market grew by 20-30 percent. In the first quarter of last year, Open RAN revenue more than doubled.Dell’Oro said the slowdown this year was caused by growth tailing off in North America, which offset continued strong performance in Asia Pa
  
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• A restored museum of Handel and Hendrix has reopened

  25-05-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some 18 months after it closed for refurbishment, what has to be one of the oddest accidental museums anywhere has reopened to the public.
  The museum is devoted to the music and lives of two very different musicians separated by a couple of centuries in time, and a thin wall in geography — as by sheer coincidence, US rock legend Jimi Hendrix ended up living in the house next to German-British composer George Frideric Handel.
  On a very different scale though – as Handel had a whole ho
  
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