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• The London Buzz – 2nd July 2024

  02-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  Transport for London has helped children across the capital learn vital IT skills by donating more than 800 laptops, iPads and computers to schools. Ham & High
  The street behind Tate Modern in London has been closed to the public after glass window panels fell from a residential high-rise. The Art Newspaper
  The fourth race in the brand-new T100 Triathlon World Tour takes place in London on 27-28 July. Here’s how to catch all
  
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• New London to Manchester rail route proposed amid HS2 delays

  02-07-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London Northwestern Railway has unveiled proposals to run train services between London Euston and Manchester via the West Midlands.
  As HS2’s capacity-boosting extension north of Birmingham is largely on hold, the proposal aims to squeeze some additional passenger capacity on the congested West Coast Mainline without needing extra trains on the busiest parts of the route.
  If approved by the rail regulator, then London Northwestern Railway’s existing services between London Euston and
  
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• The British Museum’s famous Reading Room has reopened

  02-07-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Quietly and without fanfare, the British Museum has reopened its world-famous reading room, and anyone can now visit it for free.
  The exterior of the Reading Room (c) ianVisits
  It was announced yesterday that the reading room would reopen for tours, and while those will be held once a week, the room has also opened to general visitors to wander in as they please.
  The Reading Room was built for the British Library when it occupied the space, but when the library decamped to St Pancras and the cou
  
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• Step into the Light: Anthony McCall’s playful ‘Solid Light’ exhibition at Tate Modern

  02-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unexpectedly playful exhibition has opened at Tate Modern, inviting people to pose and stand before beams of light to cast shadows and take photos.This is an exhibition of ‘solid light’ installations by British-born, US-based artist Anthony McCall, and reverently arty it most certainly isn’t. Opening conventionally with a small room explaining things, then into a dark room for a video, and then the fun starts.
  Another dark room is filled with a faint mist that turns beams of
  
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• Construction of east London’s new Beam Park station formally delayed

  02-07-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Beam Park’s housing development, which is supposed to include a new railway station, has been amended to accept the reality that the railway station is being delayed.
  Beam Park station – early concept image
  Beam Park is a multi-phase housing development on former industrial land in Dagenham that is now owned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and is being developed by Countryside Partnerships.
  The original agreement between the GLA and Countryside Partnerships required Beam Park s
  
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• A day trip to Scott’s Grotto and the town of Ware

  02-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A former Roman town in Hertfordshire that later became an important coaching stop and source of the New River, Ware is a town of contrasts and one with a significant reason to visit.
  Scott’s Grotto
  Up on the hills on the opposite side of the railway from the main town is the main reason to visit Ware — the UK’s most extensive shell-lined grotto.Built by, or at least on the orders of, the Quaker poet John Scott, around the late 1760s-early 1770s, the grotto delves deep into the
  
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