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• The London Buzz – 7th February 2025

  07-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  There has been shock and dismay from residents near Kew Bridge following the arrival of workmen to remove the artwork by Banksy that appeared last August. Neighbournet
  A man who returned from a business trip to find an e-bike bay had been painted around his car outside his west London home is to challenge a fine he was issued for parking there. Standard
  Central London YMCA closes after failed injunction BBC News
  Kentish Town Cinema Saga – lease just sig
  
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• Cutty Sark DLR station facing six-month closure to fix unreliable escalators

  07-02-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Cutty Sark DLR station in Greenwich will close for about six months later this year as Transport for London (TfL) takes drastic action to address long-standing escalator problems.
  Cutty Sark station main entrance (c) ianVisits
  Cutty Sark DLR station opened in 1999 as part of the Lewisham extension, but was built by a private company which built and operated the extension. The operator, City Greenwich Lewisham Rail Link (CGL Rail) was granted a 24½-year concession and handed the line to Tf
  
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• Stories of Migration at the SOAS Gallery

  07-02-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Twenty years ago, a photographer covering the Sri Lankan conflict returned to London with a plan to find a better way of sharing what he had seen. That plan became a graphic novel, VANNI, and triggered over a decade of using illustrations to tell the story of refugees, migration, and conflict in an accessible manner.To mark its 12th year, an exhibition of some of their artwork has gone on display at the SOAS Gallery in central London. It’s a small selection, largely blown up to poster-size
  
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• Flash discount sale on tickets for The Mousetrap

  07-02-2025 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Famously the world’s longest consistently running play, Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap has now been running for over 70 years, and is one of those plays that everyone is presumed to see once in their lives.The murder-mystery storyline is set in “the present”, presumably England as it was around the time when the play came out in 1952, including the postwar continuation of World War II rationing.
  The play is based on a short story but Christie asked that the story not be publ
  
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• Free “Railway 200” anniversary chocolates being handed out in stations

  07-02-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s the 200th anniversary of the world’s first passenger railway*, and there’s a Valentine’s Day treat on offer for everyone who loves the railway.
  Railway 200 bunting in foreground with steam locomotive behind (c) Network Rail
  On Valentine’s Day (Fri 14th Feb), several railway stations will hand out Railway 200-themed chocolate hearts to morning commuters.
  OK, it’s not the most significant thing ever, but if you’re a rail fan, how nice to be given a re
  
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• Investors fret over Eutelsat and SES finances as Starlink threat looms

  07-02-2025 06:00
  
  Growing competition from US rivals weighs on indebted European satellite operators
  
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