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• Kilburn Mews railway arches to be refurbished

  02-11-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Places for London – the Transport for London (TfL) property company – has secured planning permission to improve 11 railway arches it manages along Kilburn Mews.
  In collaboration with architect DK-CM, the work will enhance the infrastructure of the arches, bridges, and surrounding external space between Kilburn High Road and Loveridge Road — next to Kilburn tube station on the Jubilee line.
  Kilburn Mews arches – source planning document
  The arch units will have new fronta
  
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• BT profits rocket on higher bills and lower costs

  02-11-2023 15:42
  BT’s profits rose significantly in the first half of the current financial year, buoyed essentially by stable revenues help by increased prices and cost cutting measures.
  The UK operator’s pretax profit for the six months to the end of September came in at £1.1 billion, an increase of 29% on the previous year. Meanwhile adjusted EBITDA was up by 6% on a reported basis to £4.1 billion, the increase driven by revenue flow through and strong cost control, BT said.
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• Tickets Alert: A chance to climb up inside the Old Royal Naval College Dome

  02-11-2023 15:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Seen by millions from the outside, but hardly ever from the inside, tickets to climb up inside one of the tall domes at the Old Royal Naval College are now on sale.Only six people at a time – plus guides – will be able to see and hear about the creation of this remarkable building and its historic turret clock. The tours will include ascending the narrow winding stone staircase to see the skeleton of Wren’s work and then look out across the roof tops at a 360° view of Green
  
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• Redevelopment of Hackney Museum opens for public consultation

  02-11-2023 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hackney Museum has opened a consultation on plans to redevelop the museum after it secured funding for an upgrade project.
  (c) Hackney Council
  The ‘Reimagining Hackney Museum: Connecting Communities with Collections’ project has been granted round one development funding of £266,782 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
  During this planning phase, museum staff are working with local communities to shape proposals for the new museum’s displays and services. The National L
  
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• International deal to mitigate AI risks rings a little hollow

  02-11-2023 13:51
  28 countries have signed up to what the UK government calls the ‘Bletchley Declaration’, a multilateral commitment to a coordinated, global effort to ensure that AI is a force for good.
  Among them are the US, China – which caused a stir when it was invited in the first place – the EU, Japan, India, France, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (see below for the full list).
  Announced at the start of the UK-organised AI Safety Summit hosted at Bletchley Park, the
  
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• BT warns over broadband customer losses as competition hots up

  02-11-2023 13:37
  Challenger groups or alternative network providers threaten BT’s market share
  
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• Lumen closes EMEA deal but cuts staff at home

  02-11-2023 13:08
  Lumen Technologies closed the sale of its EMEA operations to UK-based Colt Technology Services, but the news was a high point in a week that brought hefty job losses and dismal Q3 results.
  Colt agreed to pay US$1.8 billion for Lumen’s Europe, Middle East and Africa business, almost exactly a year ago, a deal that for Lumen was about strengthening its balance sheet and enabling it to focus on its core enterprise solutions business. The transaction, which represents an 11x EBITDA multiple fo
  
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• Deutsche Telekom dangles bags of cash in exchange for telco AI concepts

  02-11-2023 12:43
  German telco Deutsche Telekom and its US arm T-Mobile US will give out cash prizes to anyone with any bright ideas about how AI can improve telecoms.
  It’s the fourth edition of the operator’s T Challenge, which this time is looking to attract solutions on how AI might improve the management of networks and customer experience.
  The international competition ‘offers participants a platform to present their innovative ideas’, and as well as the prize money the winners w
  
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• Renaissance meets Brixton: Jem Perucchini’s ‘Rebirth of a Nation’ glows inside Brixton tube station

  02-11-2023 12:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new mural has appeared at Brixton tube station, bringing a burst of sunshine to the station on a very wet morning.This is Rebirth of a Nation by the young Italian artist Jem Perucchini, and will be on display for a year as part of the Art on the Underground programme.
  The artist is best known for his reinterpretations of Renaissance paintings and their often coded messages into a new modern style.
  The composition is an allegorical vision in which the past, embodied by a female figure, and the
  
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• An unexpected discovery behind a Barbican sign

  02-11-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large sign for the Barbican that even if you have noticed, you’ve probably never given a second thought to – has something quite remarkable on the back.
  The front, which thousands upon thousands of people see weekly, looks like a modern piece of Barbican architecture, with a rusticated concrete plinth on top of dark bricks and the classic Barbican logo. So far, so normal.But walk around the back, and goodness me, that’s unexpected.It’s a large stone frieze and is in fac
  
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