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The London Buzz – 17th March 2025

17-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s London news round-up:
What has Sadiq Khan’s MIPIM visit achieved? OnLondon
A series of satirical adverts criticising Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have appeared at bus stations and on tube trains across the capital. The Londoner
A man accused of scaling the clock tower of Big Ben has denied causing a public nuisance and trespassing. BBC News
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Cyclists using the new Silvertown Tunnel will b

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Another ten-week closure of the Blackheath to Charlton railway tunnel

17-03-2025 10:20 via ianvisits.co.uk

The rail tunnel between Blackheath and Charlton is to close for ten weeks later this year as Network Rail carries out a second set of repairs to the 175 year old tunnel.
TfL map showing affected area
The closure will mean the rail link between Blackheath and Charlton will be closed, and trains that usually run between Dartford and Cannon Street via Lewisham will be diverted to run between Greenwich instead. People who usually travel to/from Charlton and Blackheath/Lewisham will be able to use th

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Statue of peace campaigner Brian Haw unveiled near Parliament, 20 years after Parliament tried to silence him

17-03-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Twenty years ago Parliament passed a law that was, in part, designed to get rid of an annoying man by banning protests within 1 kilometre of Parliament Square. Yesterday, to the sound of a bell ringing, a statue of that man, Brian Haw, was unveiled in south London, close to the 1km boundary that had been created to get rid of him in 2005.Brian Haw was a campaigner who started a peace protest on the grass at Parliament Square in Westminster in June 2001 and stayed there for nearly ten years, his

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Alphabet spins off laser-based internet project from ‘moonshot’ hub

17-03-2025 08:01

Taara start-up aims to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink to connect remote areas to the internet using light beams

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London’s Alleys: Pear Tree Court, EC1

17-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a passage in Farringdon that came into existence after a monastery was closed down, turned into slums and is now lined with offices and social housing.What is today the top end of Farringdon Lane is an ancient route north out of London and was at one time occupied by the medieval nunnery of St Mary. The nunnery was one one of the last to be shut down as part of King Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. The lands were sold to the Duke of Norfolk. He later swapped them for la

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