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The London Buzz – 18th October 2024

18-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
A pregnant woman and her unborn child have died after the car they were travelling in was hit by an unmarked police car. BBC News
Cutting ‘appalling’ wait times for autism and ADHD diagnosis will be difficult, Camden Council admits Fitzrovia News
The Conservatives now have four councillors in Greenwich after winning the Eltham Town & Avery Hill by-election, comfortably beating the Labour candidate. Greenwich Wire
Double Diamond Is Back In Lond

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Emo fan retrospective exhibition at the Barbican’s music library

18-10-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Provocatively titled ‘I’m Not Okay’ and promising an “unfiltered look at when youth culture was cute, raw, vulnerable, and unapologetically different”, Barbican Music Library’s new exhibition examines how the early Emo scene resonated so deeply with a generation of teenagers.Featuring personal photos taken on early digital and mid-00s phone cameras, the content has been retrieved from old hard drives and Photobucket accounts and focuses on the first-generation

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Plans to convert the historic Custom House into a hotel are back

18-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Georgian-era historic Custom House building near the Tower of London could be turned into a hotel, after its new owners submitted fresh plans for the conversion.
Outdoor plaza in front of Custom House (c) Studio Sustancia
As the name suggests, Custom House was a customs and taxes house for the port of London and has been in use as a government office building since its construction, which began in 1817. HMRC was still using it as offices, but left in 2021.
An attempt to convert the empty for

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Tickets Alert: Free entry to Greenwich’s Painted Hall for an art installation

18-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

For one week only, the Old Royal Naval College’s famous Painted Hall will be filled with a large hanging art installation, and tickets to visit are being offered free of charge.
Duo by Melek Zeynep at the Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall, part of London Design Festival 2024 (Image credit: Courtesy Melek Zeynep and London Design Festival)
Described as a rectangular prism, the artwork’s “minimal design redolent of ancient forms, evokes a sense of psychological closeness;

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A cluster of sculptures on top of Temple tube station

18-10-2024 12:20 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you visit Temple tube station in central London, pay a visit to the roof, as it is currently filled with a collection of sculptures in a free display.The exhibition features commissioned works by female artists, and what’s on display is really quite varied. That can make it feel less like an exhibition and more like a random collection of art that just happens to have been created by ladies.
A few are fun, such as the spinning legs and the hanging windchimes, while others really need yo

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