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• The London Buzz – 7th October 2024

  07-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Today’s London news highlights a resignation in City Hall, rising homelessness in Islington, controversy over parking in West Dulwich, an unusual lack of cranes in the City, pro-Israel posters in the Tube, a cinema closure in Ealing, a cancelled Christmas event in Havering, abuse in a Bexley care home, key roles for Labour MPs, and calls to stop extending the congestion charge to electric vans.
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  London’s deputy mayor for crime and policing
  
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• Pedestrian-friendly vision for City of London includes new lighting, wider pavements, and cyclist improvements

  07-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans have been shown to pedestrianise some roads in the City of London and improve others for pedestrians and cyclists.
  Some of the initial ideas include pedestrianising Camomile Street, the road next to the “can of ham” office block. They also propose improving the space outside Fenchurch Street station. Finally, Lombard Street, which is lined with historic buildings, could be enhanced through lighting, improvements to the cycle lanes, and better pedestrian crossings.
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• One-day Netflix pop-up sale offers rare props and fashion for charity

  07-10-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This weekend, a one-day charity pop-up store in Bethnal Green will hold a huge sale of Netflix clothes, props, and memorabilia.
  (c) Netflix / Mind
  The pop-up, As Seen on Netflix, sees Netflix partnering with mental health charity Mind, and will feature items that will excite superfans of Netflix’s most popular titles.
  There’s hoodies from Top Boy, signed scripts, props from One Day, and the Levi’s worn by Vincent (Benedict Cumberbatch) in ERIC. Amid the wide variety of items, f
  
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• HS2 turns London clay into celebration dinner plates

  07-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some of the London clay dug up by HS2 Railway at Old Oak Common has been turned into a dinner service that will be used at celebrations held by HS2 to mark landmark events.
  Young Potters create plates from clay excavated at Old Oak Common station (c) HS2
  To turn the clay into plates, HS2 collaborated with Absolute Beginners, an arts organisation led by artist Tom James, and local young people who have been learning to use the clay to make objects.
  The group of 17-21 year olds began using the cla
  
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• The Great British Beer Festival won’t return to London

  07-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The annual beerfest, which has been held in London for the past 33 years, will not return for the foreseeable future as it’s moving to Birmingham.
  (c) CAMRA / Helen Anne Smith
  Organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), their first large scale beer festival was held in 1975, in Covent Garden. Based on the success of that, the first official Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) took place a couple of years later, in Alexandra Palace, and has been an (almost) annual event ever since.
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• London’s Alleys: Smart’s Place, WC2

  07-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an alley of mixed appearance in Holborn that starts at one end with large modern offices, but at the other still retains a bit of its older Victorian heritage.The alley is a lot older than that, though. It first shows up in the middle of the 1600s as Cole Yard and was slightly longer than it is today, extending a bit further south, where today a building blocks the passage. It’s possible, but unproven, that the name comes from the developer Bessitt Cole, who lived nearby.
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