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• Vodafone may yet be worth hanging on for

  12-11-2024 19:02 via ft.com
  
  Turnaround signal distorted by interventions from politicians and regulators in Germany and the UK
  
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• The London Buzz – 12th November 2024

  12-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Campaigners’ efforts to overturn Hackney Council’s “dangerous” redesign of Pembury Circus were dealt a blow last night as councillors voted to keep the plans unchanged. Hackney Citizen
  London Centric can today reveal the top-secret Transport for London proposal, commissioned by Sadiq Khan, to charge drivers for every mile they travel on the capital’s roads – and just how close it came to being implemented. London Centric (&
  
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• Tim Burton tie-in window display at Harvey Nicks

  12-11-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  As part of the Design Museum’s ongoing Tim Burton exhibition, there’s a small tie-in window display at Knightsbridge’s Harvey Nichols department store.Although all the windows have the air of a Tim Burton movie, with surreal landscapes and twisted decorations, only one of the windows has actual Tim Burton movie memorabilia in it.
  The sculptures in the window are from Burton’s private collection and are from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, and were
  
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• Eurostar offering 30% off all tickets for three days only

  12-11-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Eurostar is marking its 30th birthday with 30% off the cost of tickets across all routes and booking classes.The offer is valid for three days only – from today to Thursday 14th November 2024.
  Key details of the Eurostar birthday flash sale:
  • 30% discount which applies to all adult tickets to and from London, with savings automatically applied when booking.
  • Booking classes included: Eurostar Standard, Eurostar Plus, Eurostar Premier
  • Destinations: Paris, Lille, Brussels,
  
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• Shake ‘n Vac to Power Suits: How women’s roles in advertising changed through the decades

  12-11-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  From doing the shake ‘n vac to suggestively eating a Flake chocolate, a new exhibition looks at advertising for, by and about women.A century of advertising and product packaging fills the displays with nostalgia, some of which is too old for most of us to remember and some that’s so new that many of us will not have seen it before.
  What the exhibition does, though, is use the displays to tell the changing story of how women were presented in advertising—starting mostly with do
  
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• Vodafone’s revenue drops in Germany

  12-11-2024 11:25 via ft.com
  
  UK telecoms group hit by law changes over bundling TV with rent in its biggest market
  
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• The year that Bond Street was nearly renamed Bond Street

  12-11-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s 1923, and central London’s famously posh shopping street, Bond Street, is about to be renamed… Bond Street.
  If that sounds odd, that’s because there isn’t a Bond Street in central London – there’s New Bond Street and Old Bond Street, which most people assume is all one road called Bond Street. Even those who know there are two tend to use the singular Bond Street to describe them both, as it’s convenient to do so.
  For the record, the southern
  
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• TfL resumes 60+ photocard applications following its recent cyber hack

  12-11-2024 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has expanded the range of photocard applications it can accept as it restores services following the recent cyber attack on them. TfL says it can now accept applications for 60+ London Oyster photocards, 18+ Student Oyster photocards and several other concessions.
  Now open18+ Student Oyster photocard
  18-25 Care Leaver Oyster photocard
  Apprentice Oyster photocard
  60+ London Oyster photocardLate November5-10 Zip Oyster photocard
  11-15 Zip Oyster photocard
  16+ Zip Oyster
  
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