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The London Buzz – 16th January 2025

16-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Wandsworth council has approved plans for a new renal unit at St George’s Hospital to transform kidney care for patients across South West London and Surrey. South London Press
Continued delays to planned public access at Beddington Farmlands in south London has drawn criticism from local campaigners. Bird Guides
Masked drill rapper exposed as murderer who ‘boasts about schoolboy’s killing’ Metro
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan accused the

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Tickets Alert: Tours of London’s only absinthe distillery

16-01-2025 13:19 via ianvisits.co.uk

Starting next month, you will be able to go on tours of London’s first ever absinthe distillery.
(c) Devil’s Botany
Absinthe was first produced in 18th century Switzerland and quickly became known as the famed aperitif of the Val-de-Travers, but by 1915 the alluring green elixir was nicknamed the “Green Devil” and banned in numerous countries around the world — the only spirit in the history of alcohol to be singled out in a ban as such.
The ban was due to the drink

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Stratford station fatality prompts calls for warning systems to be fitted to trains

16-01-2025 12:32 via ianvisits.co.uk

A report into a fatality at Stratford station concludes that Transport for London (TfL) should investigate whether it can fit warning systems to its trains to warn their drivers of people on platforms or tracks who are in danger.
Stratford Station (c) ianVisits
The fatality took place on Boxing Day 2023, when an elderly passenger, Brian Mitchell, got off a Jubilee line train at lunchtime, sat on a platform bench for nearly an hour at the far end of the platform of the little-used Platform 13, go

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A new cycle lane is proposed for Bermondsey

16-01-2025 11:11 via ianvisits.co.uk

A new cycle lane could be created in Bermondsey, linking two existing cycle lanes that are segregated by the mainline railway. If approved by Southwark Council, the new cycle lane would run north-south through Bermondsey via Spa Gardens, connecting Tanner Street (TfL Cycleway C14) to Willow Walk (TfL Cycleway 10).
Proposed cycle lane in red overlay on existing TfL cycle lanes (in green) map
It would also make the temporary cycle provision on Druid Street permanent with a new footway outside the

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London’s Pocket Parks: Trinity Gardens, E14

16-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a modern pocket park just north of Canary Wharf that was only briefly turned from fields into homes before returning to grass as a public park.This part of London was still pretty empty in the early 1800s and was just starting to show some new housing developments in the 1820s
As a corner plot next to two busy roads, it developed mainly as warehouses facing onto the East India Dock Road, and behind them, a school and a small row of houses facing onto Upper North Street. There was also th

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