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The London Buzz – 14th February 2025

14-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Lifting the Liberty’s marvelous Roman mosaics MOLA Blog
A former Mottingham scout hut could be turned into a four-bedroom house despite plans for the site being refused last year. News Shopper
London’s new £5bn super sewer has been fully connected and is already stopping half a million tonnes of sewage from entering the River Thames, the firm behind it has said. BBC News
Secret recordings reveal how London parking wardens are being pressured

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Tickets Alert: Retro computer gaming night at the Science Museum

14-02-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Science Museum will be opening late one night in April for an adults-only evening of retro gaming in the Power Up arcade.Offering games ranging from Pong to Pac-Man and Minecraft to Manic Miner, and onwards. There are over 160 consoles in the arcade, ranging from 1976 pong to the latest multi-player computer games. There are also some arcade game emulator consoles where you can select anything from Pac-Man to Centipede to Q-Bert to Street Fighter.
Following a few years of temporary displays,

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London could absorb Slough under English Devolution plans

14-02-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

London could get a bit bigger, as an option being considered by Slough Council could see it merge with a west London council or even become part of the Greater London Authority.
Slough highlighted the Office for National Statistics map of borough councils
The possible merger of London and Slough stems from the government’s English Devolution policy, which aims to reduce the number of smaller local authorities in favour of larger authorities with more power devolved from Whitehall to local

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London businesses to pay £250m towards Elizabeth line costs in 2025/26

14-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

London businesses are expected to pay around £250 million towards the cost of building the Elizabeth line in 2025/26 as part of the annual Crossrail Business Rate Supplement.The Crossrail Business Rate Supplement (BRS) was introduced in April 2010 to raise funds from non-domestic ratepayers in London to cover the £6.9 billion contribution from the Greater London Authority (GLA) towards the cost of building the Elizabeth line.
Each year, businesses in London pay an additional 2p per p

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The de Havilland aircraft museum wins approval to keep hangar and outdoor displays

14-02-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A historic aircraft museum just inside the M25 north of London has been permitted to retain a temporary hanger and display its planes outdoors.The de Havilland Aircraft Museum shows the heritage of one of the UK’s earliest and most successful aircraft builders, but one that was to be doomed by being a bit too innovative a bit too early.
The museum opened in 1968 on the site of the former de Havilland test and assembly factory, which built the Mosquito fighter plane during WWII. Over the de

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