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The London Buzz – 5th March 2025

05-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
Peers have been behind serious misconduct against parliamentary colleagues, it has been revealed at Westminster, in the face of a Tory call to gag complainants. Standard
Workers travelling into London this morning faced a smorgasbord of issues after signal failures across the network. Metro
A structure next to the Thames in east Greenwich that helped enable the first transatlantic telephone call could receive the same protection as Stonehenge and the Tower of

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Tickets Alert: Railway 200 tours of three London stations

05-03-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Three of London’s mainline terminus stations will be offering guided tours this year as part of the railway’s 200th anniversary celebrations.
The tours will last around two hours and involve walking around each station and the surrounding areas. They will be led by Network Rail and the historian and author Rachel Kolksy.The tours will cost £25 per person – details below.
London Bridge stationThursday 15th May
Saturday 21st June
Sunday 20th July
Tuesday 20th Sept
Saturday

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From communism to capitalism: Exhibition looks at the evolution of Czech graphic design

05-03-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

There’s a display of Czech Republic 20th century graphic design that offers a fascinating look at how a country that has been in a state of flux for most of the 20th century promoted its own identity.The exhibition is both a display of typefaces and design and a history of how they changed over the decades, from the controls of the Communist government to the explosion of experimentation after the collapse of communism to experience-led expertise.
It’s unconventionally laid out as a

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Parliament’s dining room will open to the public during the Easter recess

05-03-2025 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Easter is one of those times when Parliament closes for political business, and we mere lowly folk are permitted to have afternoon tea in the Peers Dining Rooms.
Peers Dining Room (c) Parliament
Afternoon tea is available at £55 per person for their Traditional Afternoon Tea package and £67 per person, for their Champagne Afternoon Tea package, which includes a glass of Premier Brut House of Lords Champagne.
The chance to dine like a lord will be availble for three days from from Mon

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The London Eye is 25 years old, and has four birthdays to pick from

05-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The London Eye is 25 years old, and has, depending on which opening date you choose, four birthdays to choose from.
Photo by Kevin Hackert on Unsplash
You can pick:31st December 1999 – official opening
1st February 2000 – public soft opening
29th February 2000 – first paying passengers, maybe
9th March 2000 – first paying passengers, officiallyYou could also argue that it’s 32 years ago, as that’s when in 1993 it was a losing entrant in the Architecture Founda

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