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• The London Buzz – 22nd January 2025

  22-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The much-loved Maryon Wilson Animal Park in Charlton faces closure under a new round of Greenwich Council cuts. The Greenwich Wire
  TfL’s ‘off-peak Fridays’ trial did its job. But what do its results mean for London? OnLondon
  A man from northwest London has been jailed for terrorism offences after he was found with manuals on printing 3D firearms. Standard
  The government will send ministerial envoys into Tower Hamlets Council to tackle failin
  
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• Daylight concerns derail canal-side development, delaying public access in Paddington

  22-01-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to open a section of a London canal to pedestrians have been set back again after Westminster Council blocked the proposed property development next to the canal.
  The pathless side of the Paddington Basin canal
  The Paddington Basin is a former industrial canal and cargo wharf constructed in 1801 to bring cargo into central London along the Grand Union Canal. As with most canals, it was off-limits to the public for most of its life as a busy industrial site. However, as canal freight declin
  
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• Government planning its own Great British Railway’s train ticket sales website

  22-01-2025 14:04 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government is planning to launch its own railway ticketing website, replacing the current buffet selection of individual train company websites.Although private companies will still be able to sell train tickets to the public, the current medley of English train operating company websites will be merged into a single Great British Railways ticketing service.
  The Department for Transport (DfT) said in a statement that “exact plans for Great British Railways online retail and ensuring a
  
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• Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition 2025

  22-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Something to look forward to if you like looking at expensive cars — a big display of them is returning to London in the summer.
  (c) London Concours
  The London Concours takes place in the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company from 3rd to 5th June 2025. In the region of around 80 of the world’s most expensive cars will be on display on the cricket lawn and practice grounds of the territorial army just around the corner from Old Street.
  It’s as much a social thing as a car
  
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• Van Gogh exhibition smashed National Gallery visitor records

  22-01-2025 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition, which recently closed after staying open throughout the last night to sate visitor demand, was the most popular ticketed exhibition in the gallery’s 200-year history.The exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers has just closed with 334,589 people visiting the gallery to see it. Nearly 20,000 people visited during the last weekend alone – that one person every 10 seconds.
  So popular was it that the exhibition’s catalogue even manag
  
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• Hidden Jewish cemetery in Dalston set for restoration and public access

  22-01-2025 11:24 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small triangle of land hidden behind high walls in Dalston is to be opened up and restored following a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
  Balls Pond Road Cemetery (c) Islington Council
  The plot of land is the historic Balls Pond cemetery, a Grade II-listed site recognised by Historic England in 2020, is the most significant burial ground of the Jewish Reform Movement and the resting place of many of its pioneers. The West London Synagogue of British Jews was founded in 1840 as the
  
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• Tickets Alert: Late openings at the Barbican’s heated conservatory

  22-01-2025 10:41 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re looking for an escape from the cold winter nights, the Barbican Arts Centre includes London’s second-largest heated conservatory, and it’s totally free to visit.It will also be open late during cold winter nights, offering a tropical escape from the winter weather outside.
  The conservatory wraps around the huge fly tower that supports scenery for the theatre beneath your feet, and while the Barbican’s concrete is still very evident, it adds to the overall effect
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Christ Church Gardens, SW3

  22-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  These are two pocket parks that sit on either side of an 186-year-old church deep in the Chelsea suburbs and are open to the public to sit in and relax.Christ Church was built in the 1830s to serve the growing population around Chelsea at a time when it was still a small town separate from the rest of London.
  Built as a chapel of ease to St Luke’s parish church and catering mainly to the local working population, it was designed to accommodate the maximum number of people at minimum cost.
  
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