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• The Lord Mayor’s balloon regatta will NOT fly on Sunday

  26-07-2024 18:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After coming so close last week, and after several years where bad weather has stymied the attempt to fly hot air balloons over London, this Sunday was looking perfect.
  Too perfect.
  (c) Lord Mayor’s Balloon Regatta
  Sadly, the Lord Mayor’s Balloon Regatta won’t take place as hoped because, ironically, the weather is too nice — at least for sunbathers and picnics, but not balloons.
  Usually, the regatta has been cancelled because it was too windy for the balloons, but the we
  
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• The London Buzz – 26th July 2024

  26-07-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  A woman who lives close to a 200-year-old former factory has said “it breaks her heart” that it might be demolished. Hackney Gazette
  Sutton’s former B&Q is set to be demolished and make way for nearly 1,000 flats, but some residents aren’t happy. Local Guardian
  A convoy of more than 50 vehicles, many of which were donated through London’s Ulez scrappage scheme, has set off to deliver aid to Ukraine. BB
  
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• Outernet film of London Zoo’s penguins had to have the poo removed

  26-07-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A huge video of London Zoo’s penguins is being shown at the Outernet this week, but the film team has to remove penguin poo from their footage before it could be shown to the public.
  London Zoo launches 360-degree immersive underwater penguin installation, Penguin Paradise, at Outernet London (c) Jeff Spicer PA Media Assignments
  The video was made by National Geographic videographer Ignacio Ferrando Margelí, who used a custom penguin-proof and waterproof camera rig, fusing six 4K-re
  
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• Tickets Alert: Art tour of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s State Apartments

  26-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As part of the Chelsea History Festival, there will be two tours of the artwork inside the Chelsea Pensioners home, the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
  (c) Royal Hospital Chelsea
  Led by a Chelsea Pensioner, the tours will visit the historic rooms that have hosted kings and queens for centuries and feature portraits of the Royal Hospital’s major benefactors, including Charles I, Charles II, and William III.
  Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and embellished by Robert Adam, the State Apartments includ
  
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• Persistent fare evader fined nearly £6,000 for 378 cases of fare dodging

  26-07-2024 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A persistent fare evader has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000, including repaying evaded fares and fines for boarding a train without a valid ticket on 378 occasions. The person travelled to stations between Haddenham & Thame Parkway and London Marylebone with the intent to avoid payment of the correct rail fares.
  London Marylebone station (c) ianVisits
  Revenue protection officers from operator Chiltern Railways caught the person who had already been prosecuted twice for fare evasion.
  
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• London Museum of Water & Steam launches urgent appeal to save their steam engines

  26-07-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Museum of Water & Steam has launched an urgent appeal to help save the two huge steam engines housed inside its Georgian pumping station.
  The steam engines, based next to the Thames in west London, were used to pump clean (well, cleanish) water into the City. The site opened in 1838, was expanded in 1944, and the steam engines were still in use until 1958. Fifty years ago, in 1974, the site became a museum that tells the story of London’s water supply, and shows off the huge
  
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