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• The London Buzz – 4th December 2024

  04-12-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Opposition groups have demanded that Hackney Council lobbies the government to “immediately” tax the wealthiest in society. Hackney Citizen
  Waltham Forest councillors have voted to close a day centre for disabled adults, after a hard-fought campaign by locals to keep it open. Waltham Forest Echo
  A Lewisham landlord who harassed two of his tenants after they refused to accept unlawful rent increases has now got a criminal conviction. News Shopper
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• New IWM exhibition looks at how Winston Churchill was depicted in cartoons

  04-12-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s Winston Churchill’s 150th birthday, and to mark it, there’s an exhibition of cartoons and sketches showing how the stateman was represented, friendly and otherwise, in the media.Like most politicians, Churchill took great interest in how he was portrayed in the media. Some of the portrayals he liked enough to buy the originals, and others resulted in a stiff letter to the newspaper complaining.
  As an exhibition, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) has pulled together a represent
  
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• Oil drums with model cars have appeared in the London Museum Docklands

  04-12-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A couple of oil barrels have appeared in the London Museum Docklands, with tiny model cars on top. It’s art – Exodus by the British-Caribbean artist Zak Ové- represents the migration of people across the world.The mixed-media installation echoes a gridlocked cityscape, where colourful toy cars, trucks, and human figurines mingle with elephants, giraffes, and other wildlife towering over a scene of traffic.
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• Tickets Alert: Immersive light show to fill St Paul’s Cathedral

  04-12-2024 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  St Paul’s Cathedral will be filled with a huge light show for a few days next February, and tickets have gone on sale today.
  (c) Luxmuralis / St Paul’s Cathedral
  The light show artists, Luxmuralis, will take over the interior of the cathedral, filling it with an immersive display that highlights the architecture and history of the building along with a specially composed music soundscape.
  Luxmuralis are the people who have previously projected displays into St Martins in the Fields c
  
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• London students get engineering career inspiration on the Elizabeth line

  04-12-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A charity that aims to improve London student’s confidence in maths has held training sessions at the Elizabeth line’s Old Oak Common depot.Students from Camden’s Heath School, which caters to pupils who have been excluded or ‘managed moved’ from mainstream schools or other settings, were invited to workshops at Alstom’s Old Oak Common train depot.
  The weekly sessions introduced maths applications in the rail industry, focusing on engineering principles, probl
  
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• London commuter belt railways to return to public ownership

  04-12-2024 09:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Three private train companies that serve the London commuter belt are to be the first that come under public control, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.
  SWR into British Rail (c) ianVisits
  South Western Railways will be the first to transfer to public ownership, followed by c2c in July 2025 and Greater Anglia in autumn 2025. The DfT said that allowing several months lead-in to each transfer will ensure there will be no adverse impact on passengers during the transfer from private
  
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