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• The London Buzz – 19th February 2025

  19-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A man who drove his motorboat between rowers on the River Thames, narrowly missing them, will have to pay more than £4,000 in fines, compensation and court fees. BBC News
  Plans for a distinctive five-storey block of flats in east Greenwich have been approved by a planning inspector, nine months after councillors threw the proposal out. Greenwich Wire
  A homeowner has criticised Transport for London (TfL) for failing to relocate a toilet for bus drivers o
  
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• KKR confronts €449mn earnings hole as flagship Italian deal sours

  19-02-2025 17:06 via ft.com
  
  Private equity group clashed with management over diverging forecasts for telecoms business
  
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• Surrey Quays station upgrade on target for Summer 2026 completion

  19-02-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to create a new entrance and step-free access at Surrey Quays station on the London Overground’s Windrush line is said to be on target to open next summer.
  Concept image of the new station entrance (c) TfL
  A major milestone last month was when a prefabricated footbridge was lifted into position during the weekend closure of the Windrush line. When completed, this new footbridge with stairs leading to all platforms will relieve the existing narrow staircases, which can often suffer fro
  
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• Remembering “Cardboard City”: Revisiting Waterloo’s forgotten homeless community

  19-02-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A fading memory of the homeless lands outside Waterloo station is remembered in a new exhibition that tells the story of the South Bank’s  “cardboard city”.Although, as the exhibition explains, Cardboard City was rarely made of cardboard – it was a media invention from an often hostile tabloid press that saw homelessness less as a problem to solve than a moral crusade against decadent and lazy people.
  The exhibition is mainly photographic, a record of life in the con
  
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• Lost tape recordings reveal new clues in London’s 1952 mail van robbery

  19-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Newly discovered tapes have uncovered new evidence into an unsolved crime from the 1950s that saw the equivalent of over £7 million stolen from a London mail van.
  Illustrated London News – Saturday 31 May 1952 (c) British Newspaper Archive
  The Eastcastle Street robbery took place in May 1952 when a Post Office van was held up in London. At the time, it was Britain’s largest postwar robbery, and the robbers escaped with £287,000 (about £7.3 million today). The theft
  
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• London’s Public Art: Recalling – Revealing – Remaining

  19-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A slab of carved stone can be found just around the corner from Bond Street, as a work of public art that was added to a newish office block in 2006.The office block dates from 2003, replacing  1960s predecessor, and as it usual with redevelopments of this sort, Westminster Council expects some sort of public art to be provided.
  Usually, the art proposal would be something that is designed to complement the building. This time, it seems that might not have been the case, as the planning app
  
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