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• LNER rail strikes due to start this weekend are cancelled

  29-08-2024 20:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Nearly three months of weekend rail strikes that would have affected LNER train services between London and Scotland have been cancelled at the last minute.
  Photo by Jeremy Stewardson on Unsplash
  Train drivers who are members of ASLEF were due to be on strike at LNER starting this weekend over a dispute about the breaking of agreements on work practices.
  The union now says that the strike action is suspended and drivers will report for duty as normal.The suspension of strike action follows meeti
  
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• The London Buzz – 29th August 2024

  29-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s been happening in London:
  Lewisham’s leisure centres have put out an urgent request for people aged sixty-and-over to represent the borough the ‘Older Person’s Olympics’ this autumn. South London Press
  A man has been arrested for kidnapping after a two-year-old child was allegedly pulled from their pram at a TK Maxx store on Bromley High Street. Standard
  A Victorian warehouse building in West Kensington is earmarked to be turned fro
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the bascule chambers underneath Tower Bridge

  29-08-2024 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Deep under Tower Bridge lies a vast cathedral sized space that almost seems larger than it can be, and during the winter months, the public can go inside for a look.
  Tower Bridge bascule chamber (c) ianVisits
  This is one of two large bascule chambers and is basically where the heavy counterweight swings into when the bridge opens to let boats pass through. But not when you’re standing in it — and that’s why tours take place during the winter, when fewer boats ply the Thames.
  To
  
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• New fabric sign for the London Museum is made from metal

  29-08-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large metal sign marking the 20th anniversary of the London nightclub fabric will be displayed in the new London Museum when it opens in 2026.
  Cameron Leslie with fabric sign (c) London Museum
  The sign, which hung outside the nightclub in 2019 to mark its 20th anniversary, is the latest to be donated following the museum’s call-out last year for signs from across the capital. It’s now bound for its new home just down the street where the museum will take up residence in the renovat
  
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• British Museum drops its no photos rule in the magnificent Reading Room

  29-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A few months ago, the long closed Reading Room inside the British Museum reopened to the public, but with a strict, and strictly enforced no photography rule.
  They’ve now dropped the photo ban, and doesn’t it look amazing?
  The Reading Room (c) ianVisits
  There is a small caveat that, quite reasonably, they ask that you don’t take photos of the staff working there, as the Reading Room is still used by staff as it’s their archive store.
  Enforcing a ban on taking a photo of a
  
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• Elizabeth line has busiest period yet – over 18 million passenger journeys

  29-08-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Elizabeth line has had its busiest period since it opened, carrying over 18 million passenger journeys in a 28-day period.
  Elizabeth line’s Farringdon station in the rush hour (c) ianVisits
  Transport for London (TfL) has 13 reporting periods per year for traffic numbers, and according to the latest figures uploaded to the London Datastore, between 23rd June to 20th July, the Elizabeth line carried 18.3 million passenger journeys.
  The line passed the 17 million mark in November 2023, so
  
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• London’s memorial to Raoul Wallenberg: The diplomat who saved thousands

  29-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In a small crescent on a side street near Marble Arch stands a memorial to a remarkable man who was twice declared to be dead.This is the memorial to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who used his position as Sweden’s special envoy to Budapest to save thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II.
  However, during the Soviet siege of the city in 1945, he was snatched by Soviet agents and
  
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• A dancing stoat and David Bowie spider among the photos shortlisted for Natural History Museum competition

  29-08-2024 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A ‘dancing’ stoat, a moonlight hunter and a David Bowie spider are just some of the 100 wildlife photographs that have been shortlisted to go on display at the Natural History Museum’s annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
  Twist and Jump by Jose Manuel Grandío, Spain
  The competition, now in its 60th year, attracted nearly 60,000 entries from across the world and entries were judged anonymously on their creativity, originality, and technical excellence by
  
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