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• Charing Cross tube station’s Trafalgar Square entrance to close for the summer

  13-03-2025 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Some of the entrances to Charing Cross tube station will be closed this summer, as the ticket hall requires essential maintenance due to water damage.
  Closure warning sign in the ticket hall (c) ianVisits
  Charing Cross tube station was formed from the merger of two tube stations, and has two ticket halls. The one that’s closing is the “Bakerloo line entrance” next to Trafalgar Square.
  The “Northern line entrance,” which is right next to Charing Cross mainline statio
  
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• The London Buzz – 13th March 2025

  13-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Trade unions have accused Hackney Council of “ignoring” pension fund members after they were denied the right to give a deputation to councillors on divestment. Hackney Citizen
  Four Tory-run councils reject London Green Belt review – but Labour-run Barnet will take part Barnet Post
  Campaigners are trying to stop the sale of a ‘low cost’ community gym located in the heart of Covent Garden. BBC News
  A car park in Beckenham is set t
  
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• Islington council wants to scrap the nightly locking of its small parks

  13-03-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Islington Council is considering a plan to stop locking up its pocket parks every evening and leave them open all night.
  Cannonbury Square (c) ianVisits
  It’s a cost-saving measure, as having staff drive around the council area clearing parks of lingering visitors and locking the gates costs money. However, the counterargument is that leaving the parks open overnight could attract antisocial behaviour.
  Islington Council manages 122 parks, of which 92 have fences and gates around them. The c
  
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• Kensington and Chelsea cracks down on abandoned e-bikes – operators fined £3,000

  13-03-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Enforcement officers working for Kensington and Chelsea council have started seizing e-bikes that have been dumped on pavements by their riders.
  Street Enforcement Officers loading abandoned rental e-bikes into a van (c) KBKC
  In the first phase of the clampdown, 30 Lime bikes and 12 Forest bikes were seized and taken to a secure storage location, before the operators were invoiced for the removal and storage of each bike.
  Both operators have paid the Council more than £3,000 in fees to cov
  
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• The cable car will be closed for 10 days starting next week

  13-03-2025 14:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Bad news for TikTok’rs as the IFS Cloud Cable Car will close for its annual maintenance next week.The cable car closes for about a week every year, but this year, the planned work will involve the replacement and renewal of essential components on the tower assemblies. This is routine heavy maintenance but due to the nature of the works and duration it takes, it needs to be carried out when the system is closed.
  The London Cable Car will be closed from Monday 17th to Wednesday 26th March 2
  
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• Beyond the scream: New exhibition of Munch’s portraits reveal the artist’s inner circle

  13-03-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Walking into the NPG’s new Munch exhibition, you’re faced with the man himself, an early self-portrait when he was young and couldn’t afford the canvas to paint on so it’s a selfie on cardboard.Edvard Munch is famous for The Scream and his many associated paintings, but this exhibition is screamless, as it looks at the people around him and that he chose to paint as he travelled around Europe.
  It’s a slightly harder exhibition than usual to get into, in part thanks
  
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• London’s public art: Finding the leaning lady of Hammersmith

  13-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Although thousands of people pass it every day, there’s a rather difficult to spot work of public art next to a busy west London road.This is Leaning Woman, commissioned by the London County Council to bring art to the public by commissioning works of art, often for areas affected by post-war rebuilding.
  This particular sculpture was commissioned to compensate the local community when the Great West Road sliced through their residential estates. However, as the sculpture sits next to the b
  
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