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• The London Buzz – 4th February 2025

  04-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  More than 300 civilian workers at the Metropolitan Police have launched a two-week strike in a dispute over flexible working. Standard
  A man from Greenwich who died weeks after falling down an escalator in London had not been pushed, the Met Police said. News Shopper
  A hospital receptionist who was allegedly attacked by a security guard after the pair’s ‘escalating’ banter got ‘out of hand’ has been awarded more than £19,00
  
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• Serpentine Gallery selects a giant wooden pill for their summer pavilion

  04-02-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The design for the Serpentine Gallery’s 24th annual summer pavilion has been shown off, as a partially opened wooden capsule.
  Design render, interior view. Photo: (c) Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine.
  The pavillion, which will sit next to the Kensington Garden’s based gallery on the edge of Hyde Park has been design by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA).
  The 2025 Pavilion will feature a central court
  
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• Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour 2025 tickets ballot now open

  04-02-2025 15:14 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Trooping the Colour is a big military parade that marks the King’s official birthday in June, and the ballot for tickets to be in the audience is now open.It’s one of those genuine once-in-a-lifetime events to attend, even if the pomp and ceremony isn’t your sort of thing, because it’s a memory you’ll treasure and trigger many envious looks from friends when you tell them you’ve been in the audience for the Trooping the Colour.
  I attended in 2018, so here is a
  
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• Vodafone chief says UK’s under-fire competition watchdog is ahead of EU

  04-02-2025 14:53
  
  Della Valle suggests Brussels should ‘broaden the horizon’ of its own assessments to allow mergers to happen
  
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• HS2 railway bridge installed over busy Chilterns road in just one day

  04-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the weekend, a busy road in the Chilterns changed forever when a huge HS2 railway bridge appeared right over it. On Friday morning, there wasn’t anything there, and on Friday evening, a bridge had appeared.
  It wasn’t a surprise, as the road had to be closed for the operation to be carried out and HS2’s contractors have been preparing the site for several years. During that time, they’ve been building the concrete piers that hold the bridge and then, next to the road,
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of Moor Park Mansion

  04-02-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A private manor house on the outskirts of London built in its current style 300 years ago will have a handful of public open days this year to see its richly decorated interior.Situated on the site of a 16th-century palace that Catherine of Aragon lived in after the annulment of her marriage to Henry VIII, the current manor house was built around 1617 but extensively remodelled into its current grand manor appearance in the 1720s.
  And it’s exceptionally richly decorated inside.Over the cen
  
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• Why Bakerloo line trains occasionally call at Kilburn High Road station

  04-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s very rare, but on odd occasions, a Bakerloo line train can be seen at Kilburn High Road, a station it doesn’t usually call at.
  To explain the situation, it helps to understand the layout of the Bakerloo line in the Queen’s Park area.
  Track layout diagram (c) TfL
  The tracks heading north emerge from the tube tunnels between Kilburn Park and Queen’s Park stations. Just past Queen’s Park station, there’s a large depot shed that the trains pass through to hea
  
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