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The London Buzz – 20th February 2025

20-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Sir Lenny Henry has been given the Freedom of the City of London in recognition of his “significant contribution to the entertainment industry and charitable fundraising” across a career that spans five decades. Dudley News
A customer says he has been “completely put off” from returning to a Dagenham supermarket after photographing a pigeon eating from the shop floor. Romford Recorder
Woman badly injured by van in New Cross may have be

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TfL report reveals the cost and challenges of introducing driverless tube trains

20-02-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The cost of upgrading the three of the London Underground lines to driverless trains would cost at least £20 billion, for just three of the oldest lines.The figure was revealed in a recent Mayor of London answer, and more details about how the number was obtained are available in a report by Transport for London (TfL) on the costs and implications of driverless trains.
Although previous studies have examined how driverless trains could be introduced on the London Underground, the latest re

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The Face uncovered – stripping back the magazine’s iconic covers

20-02-2025 15:21 via ianvisits.co.uk

The ground floor of the National Portrait Gallery is currently filled with naked portraits commissioned by The Face magazine that were never intended to be seen shorn of their decorative additions.These are the front cover photoshoots, from a magazine that set a new standard in using photography in popular culture, but you’re seeing them as they were never seen when they appeared in the newstands. Here, the portraits are show as works of art and are missing the branding and textual clutter

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Railway trespasser who brought rush hour trains to a standstill sentenced to 18 months

20-02-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A railway trespasser who caused £1.2 million of delays to services out of Waterloo station has been jailed for 18 months after he was successfully prosecuted.
Ryan Seymour – source Network Rail / British Transport Police
After abandoning a vehicle he was driving dangerously, Ryan Seymour tried to evade the police by climbing onto the railway tracks in New Malden which sits on the main railway line out of Waterloo.
While being pursued by police, he ran across four live tracks, where t

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There’s a scale model of the Rocket steam engine in Feltham station

20-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you head to Feltham in southwest London, you can see a scale model of the Rocket steam locomotive inside the railway station at the moment.It’s here as part of the railway’s 200th-anniversary celebrations taking place across the country this year, and although the Rocket locomotive wasn’t involved in the first railway from 1825, it was the one that revolutionised early railway engine design and spurred the expansion of the railways across the UK.
This model was built by loca

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