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The London Buzz – 23rd September 2024

23-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Three people have been arrested in an investigation into the sale of fake airbags. Officers from the City of London raided homes in Leyton and Ilford on the Essex border and seized hundreds of counterfeit bags and thousands in cash. Essex Live
Singapore Airlines has been accused of trying to “lowball” payouts to injured passengers after a Heathrow flight entered extreme turbulence and a British man died. Standard
“Alarm bells” were rai

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Spikes Ahead – First hedgehog crossing road signs for Kingston

23-09-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Kingston Council has become the first council in the country to install official hedgehog crossing road signs.
(c) Kingston Council
Over the past four years, Kingston Council has collaborated with the London Hogwatch Team, deploying wildlife cameras that helped confirm that there is a hedgehog hotspot in Old Malden. As a result, four new road signs have been unveiled in Old Malden, Kingston warning drivers to watch out for hedgehogs crossing to help preserve the population and improve biodiversi

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Tickets Alert: Tours of the London Library

23-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Good news for book lovers and those who love visiting otherwise unvisitable buildings as the venerable London Library is restarting its occasional building tours.
(c) London Library
The London Library is a private lending library founded in 1841 by (amongst others) Thomas Carlyle, who was dissatisfied with some of the policies at the British Library, particuarly the inability to borrow books to take home.
Today, it’s a hidden (litterally) corner of central London as the entrance sits in th

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London’s Alleys: Conway Mews, W1

23-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

It is an outwardly normal mews in the Fitzrovia part of London with an old pub at the front, but something unexpected lurks behind.Like so many in this part of London, the mews came when the fields were developed into housing for the expanding city and provided stabling for the grander houses that surrounded it.
R Horwood map 1799
The road it is next to was originally called Conway, but by the 1850s, it was named Hampstead Street, and by the 1910s, it had been renamed Southampton Street. It seem

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Eutelsat explores partnerships to fund Europe’s space-based network

23-09-2024 06:00

Chief executive says new partners needed if EU constellation project fails to reach agreement

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