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• Milei pledges antitrust probe after Telefónica sells Argentina unit

  24-02-2025 23:47 via ft.com
  $1.25bn sale to firm part owned by Grupo Clarín is first big move by Spanish telecoms company’s new chair
  
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• Telefónica strikes $1.2bn deal to sell Argentina unit

  24-02-2025 22:34 via ft.com
  
  Sale to firm partially owned by Grupo Clarín triggers antitrust scrutiny from President Javier Milei
  
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• The London Buzz – 24th February 2025

  24-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A gran’s 13-year battle to remove five large telecom boxes from outside her Caribbean restaurant has been discussed in Parliament. News Shopper
  Regent’s Park cyclists plagued by violent ‘bikejacking’ gangs – as police ‘say they won’t patrol before 8am’ LBC
  Lambeth Council says it might have to sell off council homes to repay government bailout Southwark News
  Swimmers at Hampstead Heath’s ponds are facing a
  
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• Historic Cartier art deco brooches returned to Eltham Palace

  24-02-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two diamond-encrusted Cartier brooches, depicting a falcon and a white Tudor rose, once owned by millionaire Virginia Courtauld have gone on display in the Courtauld’s former home at south London’s Eltham Palace.Once a favoured medieval palace and then a Tudor royal residence, Eltham Palace was in a state of neglect when it was leased in 1933 to eccentric millionaires Stephen and Virginia Courtauld. Together, the couple transformed it into a lavish home combining Art Deco architectur
  
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• Tooting station gets step-free access with two new lifts

  24-02-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tooting station in south London has gained step-free access after two lifts came into use a couple of weeks ago.Tooting station runs underneath a road bridge. The ticket hall is at the road level, and then stairs descend to two platforms.
  The station is quite tightly hemmed in on both sides, so there was just about enough space next to the stairs to squeeze in two new lifts. Due to the size constraints, these are smaller lifts than Network Rail usually installs, but short of building a large foo
  
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• Tiny Eastenders 40th anniversary exhibition at the Museum of the Home

  24-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Museum of the Home currently has a small exhibition of costumes to mark Eastender’s 40th anniversary.
  It’s supposed to be a collection of costumes from the show, which will change each month, so I wasn’t expecting a huge exhibition, but this is small. In fact, when I say small, that’s almost to oversell it — the exhibition is minuscule.
  In fact, it took a while to find the display. I had assumed that it might have been downstairs where temporary exhibitions are
  
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• Faster car parking for Southeastern customers after ANPR is introduced

  24-02-2025 10:29 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Southeastern is making changes to how its station car parks operate to eliminate the need for passengers to walk back to their cars to display a parking permit.
  Woolwich Arsenal station car park
  Until now, customers who chose to pay for their parking at the ticket office or vending machine needed to return to their vehicle before boarding the train to display their parking ticket.
  Using Automatic Number Plate Recognition, if the ticket is bought from the vending machine, the car park ticket can
  
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• London’s Alleys: Nelson Passage, EC1

  24-02-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This narrow slip of a gap between large buildings near Old Street is roughly 200 years old, emerging when the area was first developed in the 1820s.Although Nelson Passage is the only Nelson in the area, it was actually named after Nelson Street, a new street that was built sometime between 1799 and 1828. Nelson Street still exists, but was renamed Mora Street fairly quickly, leaving the alley untouched and a lingering remnant of the original street names around here.
  Originally, the area was do
  
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