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• Kew Gardens to have a Halloween themed light trail in October

  04-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This October, visitors to Kew Gardens can expect tricks and treats, with a new Halloween-themed light trail opening in mid-October.
  Halloween at Kew (c) RGLiveSony Music
  Kew is famous for hosting their Christmas light trail each year, but this Halloween, trees will twinkle in spookier colours, fire performers will dazzle and enchant, and visitors won’t know what’s lurking in the dark.
  As dusk falls, Halloween at Kew will see the Gardens transformed with eerie illuminated trees, ghoul
  
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• Stansted Airport railway station to accept London-style contactless payments

  04-09-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Another 45 railway stations, including Stansted Airport, have been shortlisted for the next expansion of London-style contactless payments.
  Warning signs at the Stansted Express gateline at Liverpool Street station (c) ianVisits
  The inclusion of Stansted Airport’s railway station was already expected to happen eventually, but it is notable because of the large number of passengers who have tried to use contactless payments there, assuming it already worked and have been caught out.
  After a
  
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• Elon Musk’s Starlink agrees to block X in Brazil

  04-09-2024 14:38
  Partial climbdown by billionaire follows freezing of satellite internet group’s finances over fines levied on social media site
  
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• Cartier, Disability, Egypt and Marie Antoinette: The V&A’s major exhibitions for 2025

  04-09-2024 14:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Cartier, design and disability, ancient Egypt, and Marie Antoinette will be the highlights of four large exhibitions at the V&A museums in London next year.
  At V&A South Kensington, April will see the V&A stage the UK’s first major exhibition in almost 30 years dedicated to the creations of Cartier, exploring how the fashion house became an unparalleled force in the jewellery and watch world. Featuring more than 350 objects, it will chart the evolution of the house’s lega
  
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• Epping Ongar Railway buys a Rolls-Royce powered locomotive

  04-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Epping Ongar heritage railway on the northeastern edge of London has acquired a Rolls-Royce powered locomotive. Before you get too excited about the allure of luxury travel, it dates back to the time when Rolls-Royce was making diesel engines for use in small locomotives and industrial vehicles.
  What they’ve bought is a locomotive designed to work in an open-cast iron ore mine at Corby, which was later sold to London Transport in 1971 when the iron ore mine closed.
  DL82 (c) Epping Onga
  
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• The 80th anniversary of the first V-2 rocket to hit London

  04-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s 6:42pm on a damp Friday evening in suburban Chiswick when, without warning, what people thought was a gas mains exploded, killing three people and injuring 19 more. It wasn’t a gas mains though – but the first ever V-2 rocket fired at London, and this coming Sunday marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the V-2 attacks on London.
  At a time when people were used to the sound of bombs falling and the familiar whine of V-1 rockets, the V2 was a silent terror. Travelling f
  
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