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• The London Buzz – 27th August 2024

  27-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s been happening in London:
  Police in Southwark have released an image of a man they want to identify after racist graffiti was repeatedly scrawled on a sign at Dulwich Hamlet Football Club. Brixton Buzz
  Plans to build more than a hundred flats at Welling United’s football ground have been withdrawn, six months after they were submitted to Bexley Council. The Greenwich Wire
  One of Britain’s most famous Paralympians had to “crawl off a train
  
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• London’s Month of the Dead returns with spooky tours and talks

  27-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  October is the month of the dead, and the annual festival of Death and the Arts will return with a month of tours, talks and events. Tickets are now on sale for most of them, and they tend to sell out fairly quickly, so best to grab tickets quickly.
  A whole month of ghoulish fun awaits.
  Highgate Cemetery (c) ianVisits
  Thursday 3rd October
  MOVING PARTS£12 – Exhumation and Repatriation with John Harris
  Friday 4th October
  MONUMENTS BY MOONLIGHT
  £20 – An Evening Torch-lit Wal
  
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• New York style smash burgers coming to London for four days only

  27-08-2024 15:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A much loved New York smash burger bar is coming to London – for just four days – and they’re giving away free burgers.
  Starting off in the East Village and attracting queues around the block, 7th Street Burger has built a cult-like status in New York City as burger lovers seek out what many are hailing as the city’s best smash burger.
  In case you’re wondering, a smash burger is one that has been made by smashing a ball of ground beef onto the grill with a spatula.
  
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• Tickets Alert: Free entry into the Chelsea Physic Garden

  27-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden behind high walls in Chelsea is one of the UK’s oldest medicinal plant gardens, and once a year, it is free to visit.The Chelsea Physic Garden was established in 1673 and remained a private medical garden until 1987, when it was opened to the public. It’s now a private walled garden that’s open to the public to visit and wander the paths to see the vast variety of plants kept here.
  The gardens are, unusually, also normally closed on Saturdays. However, one weekend a year
  
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• Waterloo station’s new pub is inspired by the Festival of Britain

  27-08-2024 12:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Waterloo station is getting a new pub, named after one of the exhibition pavilions from the 1950s Festival of Britain.
  The Wetherspoons pub will be in The Sidings, the newish shopping centre underneath the former Eurostar platforms, and will be called The Lion & the Unicorn, after the Festival of Britain pavilion of the same name.
  The Lion and Unicorn Pavilion. National Archives ref: WORK 25/209/D1/FOB3887
  The pavillion was a large modernist glass fronted building that stood just behind the
  
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• More railway stations across the southeast to get London-style contactless payments next month

  27-08-2024 10:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Nearly 50 more stations in the southeast will receive London-style contactless payments from next month as part of the scheme’s rollout to over 230 stations in the region.
  The switch-on will see 47 additional stations available for contactless payments on Sunday 22nd September 2024.
  September 2024 expansion map (c) Network Rail
  The £20 million rollout, called Project Oval, is being funded by the Department for Transport (DfT) and carried out by TfL with the provision of in-station va
  
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• Congestion and curves – challenges in constructing HS2 in the Chilterns

  27-08-2024 08:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far outside London, two railway viaducts are being built for the HS2 railway, which will pass through one of the more congested patches of the Chiltern Hills.The railway passes along a long natural valley that runs through the Chiltern Hills, a legacy of the last Ice Age when glaciers carved a path through the hills. As a very convenient route for humans to get through the hills, it’s lined with towns, roads, and railways, making it a complicated area to fit another railway into.
  Many
  
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• UK business calls for automatic recompense for broadband outages

  27-08-2024 01:01 via ft.com
  Institute of Directors among those pushing Ofcom to make redress compulsory rather than on case-by-case basis
  
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• British business groups call for automatic compensation for broadband outages

  27-08-2024 01:01 via ft.com
  Institute of Directors among those pushing Ofcom to make redress compulsory rather than on case-by-case basis
  
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