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• Old Kent Road’s railway bridge to get a fruit inspired makeover

  01-08-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A shabby grafitti-covered railway bridge over the Old Kent Road in South London will soon look a lot brighter with a new mural and lighting scheme.
  A plan to improve the appearance of the railway bridge which carries Southern and London Overground trains in Peckham was announced by the council earlier this year, and they’ve awarded the contract to local creatives, Yinka Danmole, Halina Edwards and Peter Hudson
  Over forty submissions for designs were made before the shortlist of four was de
  
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• EE takes aim at emergency services with Scottish Highlands and Islands 4G network

  01-08-2023 17:42
  BT’s mobile arm EE has switched on new 4G sites in some of the most remote areas of Scotland in an effort to improve the capabilities of emergency services.
  Consumers and businesses also stand to benefit from the multi-million pound deployment, which today encompasses 13 new masts across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. But EE is particularly keen to talk up the health and safety angle of the newly-extended network.
  Two sites have gone live on the island of Jura, for example, deliver
  
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• UK government teases potential £160 million satellite fund

  01-08-2023 17:36
  There is a potential £160 million up for grabs in the Low Earth Orbit satellite sector, which would represent ‘the UK’s most significant ever investment in satellite communications’ if it goes ahead.
  The Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit scheme (CLEO) would provide funding for UK researchers and businesses to develop new constellations, and it suggests desirable projects might take the shape of smarter satellites with better hardware, AI systems for faster data delivery, an
  
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• Japanese railway exhibition opens in Kensington

  01-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small display about the East Japan Railway has opened in Japan House on Kensington High Street, including a fully working Japanese vending machine alongside models of the Shinkansen bullet trains.The vending machine is dispensing confectionery exclusive to regional stations served by the East Japan Railway Company (JR-East) network, so there’s a variety of apple snacks and drinks from the apple-growing prefecture of Aomori, sweet potato chips from Ibaraki and mandarin mochi from Nagano.
  
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• India talks up latest 5G milestone

  01-08-2023 13:38
  India’s telecoms operators have rolled out 300,000 5G sites since the launch of the new generation of mobile technology in October last year, according to new data shared by the country’s telecoms minister.
  That’s pretty good going, particularly when you consider that those sites are essentially the work of just two telcos: Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel.
  And despite the fact that the 5G market remains the domain of only two operators, India is still laying claim to the world&r
  
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• Vocus swoops in with A$6.3 billion bid for TPG assets

  01-08-2023 13:31
  Australian fibre operator Vocus is willing to splash some serious cash to expand its footprint.
  On Tuesday it emerged that it is negotiating a A$6.3 billion ($4.2 billion) offer for a chunk of TPG Telecom’s enterprise, government, and wholesale assets, including Vision Network – its wholesale infrastructure arm.
  The bid was confirmed by TPG in a stock exchange filing following a report by the Australian Financial Review. TPG describes the offer as “indicative, highly conditiona
  
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• Royal Mail begins drone delivery service in Orkney

  01-08-2023 13:21
  The Orkney I-Port operation, run by Royal Mail and Skyports Drone Services, establishes a daily inter-island mail distribution service between three islands on Orkney.
  Letters and parcels will be transported in the usual fashion from Royal Mail’s Kirkwall delivery office to Stromness, where Skyports Drone Services will then send out drone deliveries to Royal Mail staff on Graemsay and Hoy, who can then deliver them to homes and businesses.
  The daily mail distribution service between the is
  
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• Tate Modern’s exhibition captures the vastness of Africa’s photographic artistry

  01-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s been a long time since there was a single large collective exhibition of modern African photography, and the Tate Modern has pulled together a very substantial collection and filled an equally substantial space with them.It can at first feel a bit problematic to lump an entire continent of work into one exhibition as if ignoring the vast differences between the countries, but to counterpoint that, much Western art is lumped together into one bracket as well without people (usually) co
  
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• Stratford station upgrade moves forward with business case submission: Plans include 2,000 homes and 10,000 jobs

  01-08-2023 12:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to upgrade overcrowded Stratford station in East London have taken a step forward after a business case was submitted to the government.
  Stratford Station CGI view of Station Square towards Carpenters Estate (c) QEOP
  The submission, developed by Newham Council, Network Rail, TfL and the London Legacy Development Corporation, sets out the work needed to progress plans for an upgrade to Stratford station. It has been sent to the Department for Transport (DfT), which would need to provide the
  
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• First of the new Piccadilly line trains has arrived in Germany for testing

  01-08-2023 10:55 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of the new tube trains being built for the Piccadilly line has arrived at the manufacturer’s testing centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath, Germany after being spotted en route there last week.
  First of the new trains leaving the Vienna factory (c) Siemens Mobility
  The first nine-carriage train came off the Siemens Mobility production line in Vienna at the end of July before being transported to the Test and Validation Centre by rail, sparking a load of trainspotter photos of the unusual
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Vauxhall Park, SW8

  01-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a park to the south of Vauxhall station created in the 1880s following campaigns that people living in the increasingly dirty city should have access to public parks.The area was still mostly undeveloped until the 1800s, but by the 1820s, the first block of houses had appeared in the middle of where the park is today. The houses had very large, I mean, really very large back gardens, which probably helped prevent too much dense housing from being built in the area, whereas much of the ar
  
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• Allison Kirkby, the Glaswegian telecoms turnaround expert taking over BT

  01-08-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  First female chief executive of the UK group is heading home after nearly a decade in Scandinavia
  
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