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The London Buzz – 10th January 2025

10-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Bromley council has been asked to apologise to the mum of a child with special educational needs (SEN) after they were wrongly suspended from school transport. South London Press
A Greggs store in London has padlocked its drinks cabinet apparently in a bid to beat the army of shoplifters targeting the high street food chain. Metro
Flash mob dance to Village People hit in protest at YMCA Club sell off Fitzrovia News
The controversial Mast Quay Phase 2 developm

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A seven-metre Solar Sculpture will light up Greenwich’s Painted Hall

10-01-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A vast scale model of The Sun will land in Greenwich later this month, as Luke Jerram’s latest model of the solar system fills the Painted Hall.
Mock up of Helios in the Painted Hall (c) Luke Jerram
The artwork measures seven metres in diameter and features 72dpi detailed imagery of the Sun’s surface. At an approximate scale of 1:200 million, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 200km of the Sun’s surface.
It is very dangerous to look at the Sun

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Elizabeth line beats forecasts with over 500 million journeys since it opened

10-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Over 500 million journeys have been made on the Elizabeth line since it opened in May 2022, new figures from Transport for London (TfL) show.
Elizabeth line’s Farringdon station in the rush hour (c) ianVisits
That is substantially higher than TfL had expected before the line opened, when they were predicting post-pandemic passenger numbers would be in the range of 104m to 136m passenger journeys per year when it was fully open, rising to 130m to 170m per year by 2026.
During its busiest ti

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Fire-damaged Walworth Town Hall reopens to the public following years of restoration work

10-01-2025 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

A decade after it was badly damaged in a fire, Walworth Town Hall has reopened following extensive refurbishment and upgrade works.
Photo: Chris Wharton
Walworth Town Hall opened 160 years ago, in 1865, as Newington Vestry Hall. When Newington became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark in 1900, the building served as Southwark Town Hall.
Following the local government shakeup in 1965, it ceased to be Southwark council’s headquarters and became council offices and home to the loca

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January half price sale on train tickets starts next week

10-01-2025 10:02 via ianvisits.co.uk

Millions of half-price train tickets will go on sale next week across most of the UK’s train companies. Starting on Tuesday 14th, selected advance and off-peak fares will be offered up to half-price for travel between 17th January and 31st March 2025.There are only a limited number of tickets, so passengers are being encouraged to snap up these deals quickly if they want to save more on their train fares.
This year’s rail sale returns after more than 600,000 tickets were sold in last

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