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• Verizon-Frontier deal goes to the wire as investors demand higher price

  08-11-2024 19:33 via ft.com
  
  Telecoms group offered rich premium in $20bn deal but some shareholders may hold out for more
  
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• The London Buzz – 8th November 2024

  08-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A market worker has defended the sale of sharks in Chapel Market after coming under fire on social media this week. Islington Tribune
  The neighbour of a man who died in his flat claims he had to live with a foul stench and fly infestation because the council took six months to remove soiled bedding and clean the property properly. South London Press
  Turning a semi-detached home into five “micro-flats” without permission means a landlord must pay o
  
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• Tickets Alert: An evening opening of Parliament

  08-11-2024 14:22 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, the Palace of Westminster will be open late for the public to visit and wander around the halls of power.
  The evening is also very affordable at just £5 per person.
  Westminster Hall (c) ianVisits
  In addition to visiting the Houses of Lords and Commons and the main lobbies, curator talks will be held throughout the evening in the various parts of the building.
  Also, there will be a chance to see an important artwork currently on loan to the Parliament, Claude, Seaport with the E
  
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• Historic markets move put on hold as City of London reconsiders its plans

  08-11-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The City of London has paused plans to move its historic markets to a new site in Dagenham pending a review of the scheme.
  Smithfields meat market auction 2023 (c) ianVisits
  The City of London operates three large wholesale markets: Smithfield meat market, New Spitalfields fruit and veg market, and Billingsgate fish market, and it has long aspired to consolidate them into a single location.
  To advance those plans, the City paid £100 million for a plot of land occupied by an old power stati
  
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• Save on tickets to an adult Panto – Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!

  08-11-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Pantos were traditionally for children, but adult pantos have been on the rise, and the filthy team behind Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick, are back with Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!
  The giant gay panto you never knew you needed.Jack Trott is very poor, very gay and very horny, living with his mum on a dilapidated dairy farm ten miles from the nearest Grindr user. When he sells their beloved cow for a handful of magic beans, his mum throws them in the compost – and they wake up to
  
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• The Lord Mayor’s Show: Why it took place on Mondays more often than Saturdays

  08-11-2024 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Lord Mayor’s Show takes place this Saturday (9th November), but it didn’t used to, and in fact, over the centuries, it has taken place on Mondays far more often than on Saturdays.
  The State Coach during an overnight rehearsal
  The office of Lord Mayor dates from 1189, and the show, which seems to start in 1215, owes its origins to the procession that the Lord Mayor would make to Westminster to take his (always a man back then) oath of office. In 1883, the route was shortened when
  
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