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O2 Millenium Dome to show the Euro2024 football finals

10-07-2024 23:39 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s just been announced that the huge arena in the O2 Millennium Dome at North Greenwich will show the Euro football finals on Sunday.Along with all the other outdoor screens and vast quantities of pubs, the O2 in North Greenwich will host a screening in the large arena arranged by the Mayor of London. It’s a considerably larger arena than the usual location at Trafalgar Square, so a massive crowd of 15,000 people will be able to attend on Sunday evening.
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Young V&A wins the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award

10-07-2024 21:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

East London’s Young V&A museum has won the world’s largest museum prize after it was named the Art Fund Museum of the Year for 2024, and awarded a £120,000 prize.Young V&A reopened a year ago following a £13 million capital project to transform the former V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green into a museum of creativity with a brief from the museum’s young co-designers to create ‘the world’s most joyful museum’.
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The London Buzz – 10th July 2024

10-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnel tolls set to be £4 for car drivers Greenwich Wire and – how to avoid paying the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel toll Standard
A manhunt is under way for 26-year-old Kyle Clifford, from Enfield, after the deaths of three women in Bushey Sky News
Lambeth Council’s chief executive, who was arrested and charged last month with a series of driving and drug offences, has resigned from his pos

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Tickets Alert: Visit the Earl’s Court development site

10-07-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The former Earl’s Court exhibition centre is currently a flattened building site waiting for a large, and at times controversial, housing development to start.
(c) Earls Court Development Company
Ahead of that, there’s a chance to get a closer look, from the sidelines of the site and hear more about what’s being planned — oh, and see the expanse of land that’s been cleared, revealing parts of the London Underground that’s been hidden from view for decades.
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Exhibitions at Lambeth Palace showcases women priests and female literature

10-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

At the moment, there are two female-led exhibitions at Lambeth Palace’s library, looking at women in the Church of England and old books owned or written by women.
The first of the two marks the 30th anniversary of the ordination of 1200 women to the priesthood in the Church of England, the 80th anniversary of the priesting of Florence Li Tim-Oi, and the 10th anniversary of the legislation passing which allows women to be consecrated as bishops in the Church of England.
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