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• The London Buzz – 17th December 2024

  17-12-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Plans to close the Rotherhithe Tunnel for several months to enable an extensive programme of repairs to take place have been put off until 2026 at the earliest due to a lack of funding. Southwark News
  Taxpayers ended up paying almost £700,000 after the former Hackney mayor was forced to resign over his association with a paedophile, it has been revealed. Hackney Gazette
  ‘Reject shop’ couple who sold second chance crockery pack up after 35 ye
  
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• National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing to reopen in May 2025 with fresh display and sponsorship

  17-12-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The National Gallery has confirmed that its Sainsbury Wing will reopen in May 2025 following more than two years of rebuilding works and will have a rehang of its free art galleries.However, the new galleries will also be sponsored by a Hong Kong-based property investment firm that hardly anyone has heard of, CC Land. The company, originally a packaging and bag maker that pivoted to property in 2007 following a reverse takeover of a Chinese mainland property firm, has substantial investments in
  
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• TfL drops government mandated review into its staff pensions

  17-12-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London’s review of its staff pension scheme, a condition of its pandemic funding from the central government, has ended, and TfL will not make any changes to its operation.Under the terms of the funding settlement agreed in August 2022, TfL had to review its pension scheme. In October 202, it sent a report to the Department for Transport (DfT) outlining a range of options for reforming staff pensions and an option for no change at all.
  Although TfL’s pension is more gen
  
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• Taiwan in talks with Amazon’s Kuiper on satellite comms amid China fears

  17-12-2024 13:49 via ft.com
  
  Minister says Eutelsat OneWeb network falling short and Elon Musk’s Starlink ‘not an option’ given his Chinese links
  
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• Tickets Alert: Dates for 2025 tours of Goldsmiths’ Hall announced

  17-12-2024 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the grandest of the City’s livery halls, the Goldsmiths is open a few days a year for public tours and the dates for next year have been announced.
  (c) ianVisits
  The hall is large, very opulently decorated and packed with history, and as it’s rarely open to the public, it makes for a memorable place to visit.
  The available dates for 2025 are:Monday 13th January
  Monday 17th March (tickets on sale on Tues 28th Jan 2025 at 2pm)
  Monday 28th April
  Monday 19th May
  Monday 10th Novemb
  
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• Charles Dickens Museum to mark its centenary with a new boss

  17-12-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a dickens of an announcement: The Charles Dickens Museum has a new boss.
  Charles Dickens Museum (c) ianVisits
  The museum’s current director, Cindy Sughrue OBE has led the museum since October 2015, and will han over the reins of power to the museum’s Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki next March, just as Charles Dickens’ house enters its centenary as a museum.
  Sandra Lynes Timbrell, Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, said, “We are delighted that Frankie
  
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• Tickets Alert: Horse carriage rides over Christmas

  17-12-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a few days in the run-up to Christmas, you can take a horse-drawn carriage ride through Bushy Park in southwest London. The carriages will be pulled by The Royal Parks Shire horses, with proceeds supporting conservation initiatives in the park.
  (c) Royal Parks
  The 20-minute rides will run in the mornings and early afternoons from Saturday 21st to Tuesday 24th December as costs £16.50 per person (toddlers up to 2 free on laps).
  Tickets are available here.
  You can catch your ride at the
  
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• How HS2 nearly left Euston station with two Platform 1s

  17-12-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The ever-shifting plans for Euston station’s rebuilding for the HS2 arrival nearly resulted in it having two Platform 1s due to confusion over the rebuilding plans and responsibilities.
  A previous HS2 Euston station design (c) HS2
  Speaking at Parliament’s Transport Committee session last week, the Rail Minister, Lord Hendy, said that when he was appointed to the local group overseeing the wider development, the Euston Partnership, there wasn’t a unified plan for the station red
  
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