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• The London Buzz – 28th November 2024

  28-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Ten fire engines evacuated people from a building after a fire broke out in London on Thursday morning. Standard
  A portion of Motörhead rockstar Lemmy’s ashes will find their final home in his favourite London strip club, the band’s manager has said. Metro
  Several operators ‘interested’ in Beck Theatre in council’s last ditch effort to prevent closure Harrow Online
  One hundred and twenty affordable homes are now complete in
  
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• Goodbye Overground, hello Weaver and Suffragette: Why TfL’s revamp makes travel alerts smarter

  28-11-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just over 17 years ago, a former Mayor of London announced the launch of the London Overground, a railway that was to spread its orange tentacles across the tube map.
  Today, the current Mayor of London officially broke it up into a series of newly named lines and newly chosen colours.
  Advert for the newly named lines
  The plan to break the Overground up was originally announced in April 2021 as a manifesto commitment by Sadiq Khan if he was reelected as Mayor of London, which indeed he was. In Ma
  
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• You can get a personalised blue bag from this IKEA exhibition

  28-11-2024 15:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A somewhat fun exhibition has opened on Oxford Street, which is all about IKEA’s famous blue bags, and you can buy a personalised bag from them.As an exhibition, it’s fairly small, and where I had expected it to be big and jokey or big and terribly serious, it’s actually quite small and polished. In fact, most of the exhibition is a mini IKEA store at the back, and the real prize — the chance to buy a personalised blue bag.
  The personalisation allows you to add two letter
  
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• Why museum memberships make the perfect Christmas present

  28-11-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use all year round, rather than socks and fragrances… give them membership to a museum or gallery they love.
  Most museums have some form of membership scheme and usually offer a range of goodies, such as free entry for museums that charge an entrance fee, newsletters, and the bigger venues tend to have private members’ events in the evenings or priority booking for public exhibitions.
  It’s lovely to offer as
  
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• Tate Britain’s uneven but captivating look at the 1980s

  28-11-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition about the 1980s starts in the 1970s and ends in the 1990s, such are the vagaries of trying to tell the story of a single decade that refuses to obey the rules of calendar boundaries.This is Tate Britain’s attempt to tell the story of a decade of change through the medium of photography that was taken at the time, capturing the challenges, struggles, emerging freedoms and commercial successes of the era.
  Even for those of us old enough to have lived through it, the 80s feel li
  
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• Cycling rates in London rose by a quarter over the past five years

  28-11-2024 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Cycling in London continues to increase in popularity, having jumped by over a quarter in the past five years.
  Cycling in London rose rapidly in the 2000s and 2010s but stagnated somewhat in the late 2010s until the pandemic triggered a renewed interest in cycling again. According to the latest road traffic data from Transport for London (TfL), the number of daily cycle journeys in 2024 had increased to an estimated 1.33 million journeys per day — up by 26% since 2019.
  Daily cycle stages (
  
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