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• Lutnick touts Musk’s Starlink for US broadband scheme

  18-03-2025 22:31 via ft.com
  Commerce secretary urges officials to consider Trump adviser’s satellite connection for rural households
  
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• Howard Lutnick touts Elon Musk’s Starlink for US broadband scheme

  18-03-2025 22:31 via ft.com
  
  Commerce secretary urges officials to consider Trump adviser’s satellite connection for rural households
  
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• The London Buzz – 18th March 2025

  18-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  One of the longest-serving councillors at [Camden] Town Hall has said that members do not get enough in allowances – as Camden voted to increase their pay. Camden New Journal
  A woman has died after a van collided with pedestrians on the Strand in central London. Standard
  A £3.5 million refurbishment of the Millennium Bridge expected to begin by this spring has been pushed back to next year. South London Press
  Chris Philp’s ‘foreign&rsq
  
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• Look out for an attempt to fly 50 hot air balloons over London in May

  18-03-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If all goes well, up to 50 hot air balloons may drift over central London on a Sunday morning in May or July this year.
  (c) Lord Mayor’s Balloon Regatta
  All going well that is, as the annual Lord Mayor’s Hot Air Balloon Regatta has been rather less annual in recent years as the weather keeps getting in the way and stopping it. Last year they came so agonisingly close, with an all-clear on the Saturday afternoon, only for the weather to turn overnight and the whole thing cancelled lit
  
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• London Museum to display its largest ever Roman archaeology archive donation

  18-03-2025 15:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Museum has received a £20 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the single largest archive of archaeological material ever received by the museum.
  The collection of mostly Roman artefacts was discovered when Bloomberg’s new office building was being constructed, and the site provided one of the best-preserved collections of often lost fabric and wooden remains in London.
  Site excavation works April 2013 (c) ianVisits
  The archaeological project, also funded by
  
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• Boxpark’s food arcade next to Liverpool Street station opens next month

  18-03-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An Edwardian shopping arcade that opened in 1912 when an open-air cutting for the Metropolitan railway was covered over is to reopen next month as a Boxpark operated food hall.
  (c) Boxpark
  The arcade was nearly demolished in 1988 for offices but saved and restored in 1994-95. It’s still owned by TfL, and in 2022, they signed a 15-year lease with Boxpark to open it as BoxHall City, a covered food hall with 14 kitchens.
  After a couple of years of conversion work—longer than initially p
  
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• Turin Shroud (replica) exhibition at St George’s Cathedral

  18-03-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A full-size replica print of the Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth claimed to show the image of Jesus Christ, is on display for a few weeks in a London cathedral.
  The Shroud of Turin Exhibition shows the shroud as it would be seen in person, but also with the much more evocative modern photographic negatives that revealed the face imprinted into the fabric. It’s almost invisible in daylight, making the revelation of religion dependent on the powers of science.The replica on display in Lond
  
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• IKEA confirms May Day opening for its Oxford Street store

  18-03-2025 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  IKEA has announced that its new Oxford Street store will open on May Day, some 18 months later than originally planned when it bought the former Top Shop building.
  (c) IKEA
  IKEA bought the Grade II listed building in January 2022 and had expected to open in the middle of 2023, but the conversion work was beset by delays and complications including water ingress into the basement.
  The IKEA will only occupy three floors of the seven-storey building, comprising the ground and two lower ground floor
  
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• Historic Bazalgette Mausoleum to be saved after decades of decay

  18-03-2025 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The decaying resting place of London’s Sewer King, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, is to be restored following a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for the work to be carried out.
  Bazalgette Mausoleum in St Mary’s Wimbledon (c) ianVisits
  The Bazalgette Mausoleum is a Grade II listed structure in St Mary’s Church Wimbledon. However, the internal vaulting has partially collapsed, and the rest is in very poor condition. Due to water damage, it’s also on Historic England’s Her
  
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• Ampersand Station: How WWII created an unofficial tube station

  18-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the 1940s, it was possible to catch a Bakerloo line train from Ampersand station, even though no such station officially existed.
  Ampersand station (c) ianVisits
  The station was officially called Bushey & Oxhey, and the oft-repeated story is that during WWII, railway station names were obscured to make life difficult for spies. When the order said station names needed painting out, someone decided that meant the & symbol wasn’t part of the rules.
  Hence, the station gained the ni
  
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• Indian billionaire Mittal weighs up increasing his BT stake

  18-03-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Bharti founder has privately suggested he could expand his position in UK telecoms group
  
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