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• The London Buzz – 22nd July 2024

  22-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  Six people have been arrested after a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in an ‘assassination’ in a park in west London. LBC News
  A person has died after being hit by a train at Bank Underground station in central London. Standard
  Equity is campaigning to save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (BGWMC) which is threatened with closure. Equity
  The Government is not opposed to Heathrow building a third runway if it meets four
  
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• TfL warning of Piccadilly line closures as it upgrades the line for a fleet of new trains

  22-07-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There is going to be substantial closures of the Piccadilly line in July and August, as Transport for London (TfL) needs to carry out upgrades ahead of the arrival of the new fleet of trains.
  New Piccadilly line train on test tracks in Germany (c) ianVisits
  The new trains are part of an investment to modernise the line, to help it run more reliably, safely, inclusively and sustainably. The scale of the upgrade, which will take place on one of London’s deepest Tube lines with some of the ol
  
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• Rare 17th-century paper cuttings unearthed at Hackney’s historic Sutton House

  22-07-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A pile of papers found under the floorboards of a Tudor manor house in Hackney back in the 1980s but never studied have revealed that some of them are very rare examples of 17th-century papercutting.
  The 500-year-old Sutton House in Hackney was built for one of Henry VIII’s statesmen and over its lifetime it was home to different families and used for different purposes including a girls’ school in the 17th century.
  During the National Trust’s renovation of the house in the lat
  
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• Work starting to add more ticket barriers at Liverpool Street station

  22-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work will start later this month to prepare Liverpool Street station for the addition of more ticket barriers to the gateline, which will help reduce congestion.
  CGI of proposed gateline with food outlets removed – source Network Rail
  Currently, the gateline is divided into five sections by six small retail units, mostly selling food. The works will see the loss of the retail outlets, but passengers will gain an expected 24 additional gates to get to and from the trains — taking Plat
  
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• Vodafone sells further €1.3bn stake in European phone masts business

  22-07-2024 11:11
  Sale part of CEO’s plan to simplify telecoms group’s sprawling business and reduce debt
  
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• BT fined £17.5mn for ‘catastrophic’ 999 call failures

  22-07-2024 10:17
  
  UK telecoms group ‘fell woefully short of its responsibilities’ in incident last year, says Ofcom
  
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• London’s Alleys: Eagle Court, EC1

  22-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an odd alley in Farringdon lined on one side by rough office backs and the other by a listed Victorian school.The alley would have been on farmland owned by the Priory of St John of Jerusalem, but following King Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the monasteries, the land was sold off to developers, and the farms quickly turned into housing for the expanding city.
  The alley first appears in maps in the 1670s, although it seems likely to have existed for several decades by then, and althou
  
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