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• New video shows the nearly finished Brent Cross West station

  23-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A video of the nearly completed new railway station at Brent Cross West in North London has been released by the local council, showing how the station will look when it opens in a few months time.
  (c) Barnet Council
  The new Brent Cross West station sits between Cricklewood and Hendon stations and will be served by Thameslink trains, with up to eight trains an hour at peak times. The station will also be able to accommodate the planned West London Orbital (WLO) line if it is built, providing add
  
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• See BBC science fiction props from Doctor Who to Blake’s 7 at the Gunnersbury Park Museum

  23-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  West London has been invaded by Daleks, Tripods, Cybermen and Blake’s 7, as a new exhibition looks at the many small companies that made props for the BBC’s science fiction shows and films.
  With several film and TV studios in the area, it’s not a huge surprise that Ealing’s quiet domestic suburbs would be the birthplace of Stormtroopers, Doctor Who androids, and oh, so very many designs of laser guns.
  Now, the Gunnersbury Park Museum has brought together a wide range of t
  
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• New office development to include a free roof terrace overlooking the Tower of London

  23-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new office development in the City of London is going to include a free roof terrace that’ll give views of the Tower of London and the wider area.
  Indicative image of the roof terrace (c) 3XN / Planning document
  The new building, which secured planning permission last week, will replace a rather tired looking 1960s glass clad office block with a more restrained brick clad office block with a series of step back floors and roof terraces.
  The development sits on the busy road that runs pas
  
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• The Telecoms.com Podcast: EE, Ericsson/Nokia and US vs China

  23-10-2023 12:43
  The Telecoms.com Podcast · EE, Ericsson/Nokia and US vs China
  
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• Vodafone, VMO2 and Three set to miss Shared Rural Network deadline

  23-10-2023 11:56
  Three of the UK’s four mobile network operators have written to the government asking for an extension of the deadline for their coverage commitments.
  We know this because the Telegraph got hold of a letter Vodafone, VMO2 and Three, asking the government to extend an interim target of 88% geographical coverage by June 2024 under the Shared Rural Network (SRN) scheme. It’s not know whether EE was invited to co-sign the letter but it hasn’t, presumably because it expects to hit t
  
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• Nokia will launch carrier-grade Wi-Fi 7 broadband devices next year

  23-10-2023 11:42
  Kit vendor Nokia has announced a carrier-grade portfolio of Wi-Fi 7 devices, including dual-band, tri-band and quad-band configurations.
  Within the new range of products, Nokia highlights the Beacon 24 as having an ‘innovative antenna design and orientation’ for omnidirectional coverage, which it claims provides the best overall horizontal coverage, as well as vertical coverage for wifi devices on different floors.
  It also supports multi-link operations (MLO) across four radio links,
  
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• London’s Alleys: Cockpit Yard, WC1

  23-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a rough looking former stables mews that today is a mix of municipal yard and arts centre. The area though, originally developed from empty fields to the north of the Kings Way (now Theobalds Road) in the 1700s as part of the Doughty Estate, on lands owned by the Doughty and Tichborne families.The name is almost certainly from an actual cockpit near the yard, which is mentioned in Pepys Diary in March and April 1668. It was described as a building with a pointed conical roof, and its str
  
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