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• Giant Wallace & Gromit to appear on the Battersea Power Station chimneys

  29-11-2024 18:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the rest of this year, there will be a giant Wallace & Gromit projected onto the side of Battersea Power Station.And at times they will be joined by some unexpected antics from the mischievous Feathers McGraw.
  It’s almost as if there’s a new Wallace & Gromit film coming out this Christmas. Oh, there is!
  The video projection will be from 5pm to 10:30pm every night until New Year’s Eve and can be seen on the river facing side of the power station, so visible from the
  
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• The London Buzz – 29th November 2024

  29-11-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  London Fire Brigade (LFB) has made “significant improvements” in performance since 2022, the fire inspectorate has said. ITVX
  The owner of a pub which has been serving pints for more than 150 years says it is now under threat of closure after being presented with a host of new licensing conditions by Islington Council. Islington Tribune
  An exercise was held this week at Brentford FC’s ground to test responses in the event of a major incident
  
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• Barking Riverside switches on its Cold-War replacement substation

  29-11-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large anonymous-looking brick building that was recently built next to Barking Riverside station has been “switched on,” as it’s a brand new electricity substation for the wider area.
  The new 132kV Barking substation (c) National Grid
  Replacing a substation built in the 1950s on the other side of the road, the new building only needs about a quarter of the space to handle the same amount of electricity as the old site.
  The new 132kV indoor substation connects the local grid o
  
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• The Wallace Collection unites five Boulle clocks from France’s Sun King era for the first time

  29-11-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Five clocks in the Wallace Collection built during the reign of France’s Louis XIV — the Sun King — have been brought together into a single room for the first time.
  All of them are grand masterpieces of clockmaking and decoration, and even the smallest would dominate the average house, while the largest is too big to fit in most houses.They were all built by one of history’s greatest designers and cabinetmakers, André-Charles Boulle, who would eventually give his
  
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• TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains

  29-11-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has dropped its investigation into how it could introduce driverless trains on the London Underground.
  New Piccadilly line train on test tracks in Germany (c) ianVisits
  One of the many conditions imposed on TfL during the pandemic to keep services running when most of us were stuck at home was that it would investigate how it could introduce driverless trains on the Underground. TfL was required to produce a business case for converting the Waterloo & City line and
  
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