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• Verizon’s pricey high-fibre diet won’t suit telco investors

  05-09-2024 19:03
  Acquisition part of sector’s push to converge phone, internet and television
  
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• The London Buzz – 5th September 2024

  05-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Works to repair Woolwich Town Hall have started – the aim being to protect the Grade II* listed building for years to come. South London Press
  Tower Hamlets council will be able to place homeless families in temporary accommodation beyond the Home Counties, after removing a 90-minute journey time limit. BBC News
  A surge in anti-social behaviour and crime in the Hackney Downs area over the summer months has made residents feel powerless, as police and th
  
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• HS2’s Colne Valley viaduct becomes Britain’s longest as final segment is lowered into place

  05-09-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new milestone has been reached in the construction of the HS2 railway with the structural completion of the Colne Valley viaduct in west London -which is now the longest viaduct in the UK.The viaduct rises out of the tunnel under the M25 and carries the HS2 railway over the Colne Valley—a nature reserve created from flooded gravel pits—before dipping back down into the tunnels at Ruislip. The low-level design, often below the level of the surrounding trees, has several long shallow
  
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• Chiltern Railways launches September flash sale: Train tickets from £5.40 on Fridays

  05-09-2024 15:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Chiltern Railways is offering thousands of tickets at discounted rates to travel on Fridays throughout September.Tickets are available for travel from selected stations on the Oxford to London Marylebone line with tickets from as little as £5.40. In addition, discounted tickets on the Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone line can be purchased for as little as £6.40.
  Bookings open from 10am on Mondays until midnight on Wednesdays to purchase discounted tickets for the following
  
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• Verizon to expand broadband reach with $20bn Frontier acquisition

  05-09-2024 14:00
  US telecoms group says deal will ‘significantly’ increase its fibre footprint ‘across the nation’
  
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• The Good Life visits Denham Station

  05-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just outside London is Denham Station, which made a well-known appearance in a TV sitcom, although few people have realised it is that particular station.
  The sitcom was The Good Life, a 1970s comedy set in south London’s Surbiton, where Tom and Barbara Good dropped out of the rat race to become self-sufficient, to the consternation of their upmarket neighbours.
  One episode saw them chatting to a farmer who takes them to see a smallholding farm they could move to instead of living in a lar
  
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