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• The London Buzz – 21st November 2024

  21-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A London e-bike sharing company is being investigated by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) over its claim that users can have “10 minutes free daily”, which is attached to all its bikes across the capital. Cycling Weekly
  Dave Hill: Can a ‘liveable’ London street become a forbidding precinct? OnLondon
  The Liberal Democrats in Ealing borough have set up a petition calling for action on what they describe as the ‘disgraceful&rs
  
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• Urgent appeal to save the London home where Vincent Van Gogh lived

  21-11-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  South London’s Van Gogh House museum has launched an urgent fundraising appeal to keep the museum, and its sister art gallery open after a major donor was forced to withdraw from supporting them.The Van Gogh House museum is the house that Vincent Van Gogh stayed in when he lived in London. 2012 it was bought by two people who wanted to open it as a mix of museum and live-in artists’ residence.
  Opened just before the pandemic forced it to close again, it has been open since 2021 for t
  
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• The Elizabeth line is rewriting the UK’s rail station usage charts

  21-11-2024 11:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Terminus stations usually dominate the annual chart of Britain’s busiest railway stations, but the Elizabeth line is upending everything, with Tottenham Court Road now the third busiest station in the entire country.
  Tottenham Court Road station (c) ianVisits
  The latest figures are the first full year to include the full Elizabeth line and demonstrate its impact on rail travel, as several central London stations surge up the league tables boosted by Elizabeth line traffic.
  After entering t
  
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• Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz to go on display in London

  21-11-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of only four surviving pairs of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz will go on display in central London next week.
  (c) Heritage Auctions
  They are not just any pair though, but the ones used in close up shoots in the film, and more, they are the This was the pair that was famously stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005 and recovered by the FBI in 2018.
  It’s thought that maybe six to ten pairs of ruby slippers were made for the movie, although only four are k
  
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• Visiting St Mary’s church Osterley

  21-11-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A short walk from Osterley tube station is this neo-gothic church, built when all around here were just fields and weren’t called Osterley.This is St Mary’s Osterley, built by the property developer Henry Daniel Davies, who built the Spring Grove estate of which it formed a part. When the church was built, this part of the estate was still fields, with just a few streets but no houses.
  The intention was that houses, for suitable mostly retired army officers, would follow quickly, but
  
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• Chinese satellite company to challenge Musk’s Starlink in Brazil

  21-11-2024 07:26 via ft.com
  
  Billionaire Trump ally had clashed with Brasília this year over alleged misinformation on X
  
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