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• Vodafone-Three UK merger set to ring changes on Britain’s mobile landscape

  05-12-2024 17:51 via ft.com
  
  Deal will reduce number of operators in the country from four to three
  
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• Barbican Art Centre gets £191 million to fund essential upgrades

  05-12-2024 17:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A substantial upgrade of the Barbican Art Centre is to go ahead after the City of London approved £191 million of funding for the arts centre.
  Barbican Centre (c) ianVisits
  The redevelopment of the Barbican Centre was chosen as the alternative to building a new concert hall on the vacated site of the former Museum of London and it gives them an opportunity to fix some of the inherent problems with the Barbican Centre at the same time.
  The package will fund about 80 percent of the first pha
  
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• The old London Overground signs are being sold off

  05-12-2024 14:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the London Overground’s rebranding, most of the old signs were replaced with new ones, and rather than being scrapped, the old signs are now up for sale.
  (c) LT Museum
  Maybe you have fond memories of the southbound Overground platform at Kensal Rise or have a particular memory of a trip to Richmond or Clapham Junction.
  Or maybe the lift was memorable in ways we might not want to ask too much of.
  Whatever the reason, a load of the old London Overground signs are being sold by the London
  
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• Google Street View has added London’s tube stations to its maps

  05-12-2024 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s now possible to use Google Street View to remotely visit a load of central London’s busiest tube stations.
  Mock up image of Google backpack camera operator in a tube station.
  Apart from casual curiosity, feedback from TfL’s Disability Advisory Group indicated that being able to see within stations before visiting them would benefit people with access needs or those unfamiliar with travelling in London.
  From today, 18 central London tube, Elizabeth line, and Network Rail st
  
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• Over 500 works by Royal Drawing School students on display in Shoreditch

  05-12-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over 500 contemporary drawings have gone on display in Shoreditch, all by this year’s students from the Royal Drawing School.The Drawing Year is a full scholarship postgraduate-level course which provides an opportunity for intensive practice in drawing from observation. Approximately thirty students are selected from a pool of over 500 applicants to attend the course. A faculty of practising artists lead teaching, and students are provided with a dedicated studio space for the year.
  Now,
  
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• UK regulator approves £16.5bn combination of Vodafone and Three

  05-12-2024 09:20 via ft.com
  
  Merger is expected to create Britain’s largest mobile operator
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: St George’s Garden, SE1

  05-12-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a very new and very small pocket park squeezed into an empty triangle of a space left when a block of flats was built here in the late 1990s.The corner plot next to St George’s Circus roundabout was once home to several different buildings, including the Royal Eye Hospital, a couple of pubs, and the very large Surrey Theatre.
  The theatre closed in 1934, and the site was cleared for redevelopment, but WWII got in the way, and even then, the area was badly damaged by bombing. Post-wa
  
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