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• The London Buzz – 12th July 2024

  12-07-2024 18:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  A couple who both developed chronic lung diseases after years in a mouldy council flat were left devastated when they were offered a new home, only for the council to take it away again. Hackney Gazette
  Four out of five ash trees in Highgate Cemetery could be killed by a virulent disease – leading to safety concerns at the historic beauty spot. Ham & High
  A persistent shoplifter who stole more than £6,000 of goods from
  
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• AT&T data on ‘nearly all’ wireless customers accessed in hack

  12-07-2024 14:55
  
  Telecoms group joins list of big US companies over the past year to reveal cyber security breaches
  
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• AT&T data on ‘nearly all’ wireless customers accessed hacked

  12-07-2024 14:55
  Telecoms group joins list of big US companies over the past year to reveal cyber security breaches
  
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• London’s Cold War tunnels get final approval to open to the public

  12-07-2024 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to open up a large warren of Cold War tunnels under central London can proceed after the second of two planning approvals was granted yesterday evening.
  One of the tunnels (c) DBOX for The London Tunnels
  Built during WWII as shelters from bombs but never used by the public, the tunnels were converted into deep-level telecoms exchange during the Cold War. They became rather legendary in the subterranean world when details about them emerged.
  They were put up for sale in 2008, but no serious
  
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• GWR warning of train delays because of the EURO 2024 final

  12-07-2024 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  GWR is warning that a shortage of staff who would prefer to watch the Euro final on Sunday instead of working overtime may cause train cancellations.
  From the July 2022 Lioness victory (c) GWR
  Scheduled engineering work in Oxfordshire and the Severn Tunnel means more train crew than normal are required to run train services, while sickness and England reaching the final of the Euros are likely to reduce the number of colleagues available for overtime shifts.
  Any disruption that happens will be l
  
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• V&A Museum saves important 12th-century ivory carving for the nation

  12-07-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After launching an urgent appeal earlier this year, the V&A Museum says that it has saved one of the UK’s most important English Romanesque ivory carvings from being sold overseas.
  (c) V&A Museum
  In just under five months, the V&A managed to raise £2 million to buy the rare 12th-century walrus ivory carving depicting the Deposition of Christ from the Cross for the nation, following a temporary export bar placed in November 2023 by the Department for Culture, Media and Spo
  
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• Milestone Achieved: Vast underground box for west London’s HS2 station completed

  12-07-2024 10:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Three years after they started digging, a huge underground box for a new railway station in west London that’s wide enough for six platforms is now complete.
  This is the future HS2 railway station at Old Oak Common.
  Final stages of excavation of OOC box June 2024 (c) HS2
  HS2’s Station Construction Partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI SYSTRA joint venture (BBVS JV), working with their structures contractor Expanded, completed the excavation with apprentice Miguel Jardim removing the last of
  
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