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• Father Christmas is coming to the Natural History Museum

  01-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Father Christmas misses the department stores he used to inhabit during December, so he has decided to move to the Natural History Museum instead.
  He’ll be at the museum from Sunday 1 December to Sunday 15 December.
  (c) NHM
  Arriving at a fairy-lit wonderland filled with snowy Christmas trees, children can settle down on big cushions to hear the story of The Night Before Christmas straight from Father Christmas himself. In the 45-minute experience visitors will hear how Father Christmas get
  
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• Cheap return fares offered by Greater Anglia for autumn travel

  01-10-2024 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Train operator Greater Anglia has launched its annual autumn ‘Hare Fares’, offering return trips from London for just £12 return for a limited time.
  (c) Greater Anglia
  The ‘Hare Fares’ offer passengers off-peak returns across the Greater Anglia network with simple return prices: £12, £18 and £24, with children travelling for just £2 return each.
  (There are also some return fares for £6, but only for trips wholly outside London)
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• See a Shinkansen bullet train’s nose cone in London

  01-10-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the next few months, it’s possible to see the nose cone from one of Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains on display in central London.
  Not just any nose cone, though. It’s the one used on the very last journey on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen line by the first-generation Series 0 trains, which were introduced on the line 60 years ago today.The Tōkaidō Shinkansen line was the world’s first high-speed rail line, inaugurated on 1st  October 1964, just 10 da
  
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• A visit to All Souls church, Langham Place

  01-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is the church that often appears in the background of outdoor broadcasts from the BBC’s Broadcasting House, although you might not have realised that tall stone spire is a church at all.It’s also the last surviving church designed by John Nash, is coming up to its 200th birthday, and has its rector appointed by the Prime Minister (sort of). Less appealingly, the services are in the conservative evangelical style which doesn’t really approve of the gays or the women.
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• The AT&T-DirecTV mistake

  01-10-2024 07:30 via ft.com
  
  How a $67bn deal went wrong
  
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