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• The London Buzz – 28th February 2025

  28-02-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Traffic wardens working in the borough of Ealing are set to strike for a month unless an ongoing dispute with the council is resolved. Chiswick W4
  A dog that joined London Fire Brigade at only 10 weeks old is retiring after becoming its longest-serving fire investigation dog. BBC News
  Met Police orders Swiss Cottage anti-Zionist demo to move to new Kings Cross location Jewish News
  Brentford and Isleworth MP Ruth Cadbury has written a letter to TfL raising con
  
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• Survivor thanks heroes after cardiac arrest at Liverpool Street station

  28-02-2025 14:24 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An Elizabeth line passenger has expressed his gratitude to the paramedics and bystanders who saved his life after he went into cardiac arrest at Liverpool Street station.
  Paul Benson, 67, from Barnet collapsed in the pedestrian tunnel at Liverpool Street Station as he and his wife Lorraine were on their way to catch a train on the Elizabeth line. Luckily, an off-duty nurse, doctor and pharmacist were nearby and started chest compressions immediately while someone ran to find the defibrillator at
  
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• Last chance for Early Bird tickets to London Open Gardens Weekend

  28-02-2025 14:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s the last chance to get discounted tickets for the annual weekend, when loads of London’s usually private gardens are open to the public.
  Hereford Square (c) ianVisits
  The event began with volunteers’ passion for opening up private West London squares and has since grown to embrace gardens across central London—from exquisite roof spaces owned by city banks to historic institutions, community allotments, and even the Prime Minister’s own Downing St garden in pre
  
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• Glitz, grit, and genius: Tate Modern unmasks the many faces of Leigh Bowery

  28-02-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander around Tate Modern’s multicoloured exhibition devoted to the performance artist Leigh Bowery, one small grimy black-and-white photo encapsulates his life. It shows Leigh in full costume waiting in a grimy foyer of the council tower block he lived in, waiting for a smelly lift to get him home, where behind locked doors, he could strip away the costumes that defined his public life.
  Extract from “Leigh Bowery: Waiting for elevator home” by Nigel Parry
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• HS2 is a “casebook example of how not to run a project” – Parliamentary report claims

  28-02-2025 11:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ongoing uncertainty about how Euston station will be built is a major problem for the HS2 railway, according to a Parliamentary report into the railway project.
  HS2 tunnel entrance next to the M25 motorway (c) ianVisits
  The Public Accounts Committee’s latest report into the railway described the project as a “casebook example of how not to run a major project.” The report said it was unacceptable that more than a decade into the programme, they “still do not know what it
  
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• Oxford Street could become a car-free space as Mayor of London opens consultation

  28-02-2025 09:24 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The latest round of consultations into whether and how Oxford Street could become a car-free space has opened, as the Mayor of London pushes ahead with his plans for the area.
  Artist impression from the cancelled 2021 scheme (c) Westminster Council
  Although Westminster Council had been working on its own plans, which weren’t quite full pedestrianisation, the Mayor of London stepped in last September to seek powers to create a Mayoral Development Area in the area.
  The public consultation &m
  
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