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• UK regulator says plan for competitive broadband market by 2031 on track

  20-03-2025 18:26 via ft.com
  Rising impact of rival networks may see Ofcom lifting restrictions on BT’s Openreach
  
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• The London Buzz – 20th March 2025

  20-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A block of offices in Hammersmith could be turned into 76 new flats after a plan was submitted to convert the Aircraft Factory Building. Hammersmith Today
  “Mass orgies” and drug users are destroying valuable wildlife habitats in one of north London’s most popular parks, a conservation group claims. Islington Gazette
  A former Liberal Democrat councillor for London Bridge and West Bermondsey who served as the vice-chair of the London Liberal D
  
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• Trooping the Colour 2025 tickets ballot closes soon

  20-03-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Trooping the Colour is a big military parade that marks the King’s official birthday in June, and you have just a few days left to apply to be in the ballot for tickets.It’s one of those genuine once-in-a-lifetime events to attend, even if the pomp and ceremony isn’t your sort of thing, because it’s a memory you’ll treasure and trigger many envious looks from friends when you tell them you’ve been in the audience for the Trooping the Colour.
  I attended in 2018
  
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• Government urged to back the Bakerloo line extension in its 10-year infrastructure plan

  20-03-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A coalition of local councils and businesses has called on the government to include the Bakerloo line extension in its forthcoming 10-year Infrastructure Strategy for the UK.
  The Bakerloo line trains, at over 50 years old and practically on their last legs are the oldest passenger trains in general use in the UK today, and need special permission to remain in service because they break quite a few disability access laws.
  Lambeth North tube station (c) ianVisits
  There is a dual plan to replace t
  
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• From trick riders to big tops: The story of the UK’s first circus in Lambeth

  20-03-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just over 250 years ago, the first circus opened in the UK, and now an exhibition tells the history of the circus and how it all started in South London.The first circuses weren’t travelling affairs but were fixed locations, and the one generally considered the first in the UK was at a site in Westminster Bridge Road where St Thomas’ Hospital now stands. Opened in 1770 by Philip Astley and his wife Patty Jones, it was a show of trick-riding displays, sword work displays, rope acts an
  
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• A new tunnel is about to be dug under the River Thames

  20-03-2025 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new tunnel is about to be dug under the Thames to the east of London — to help move electricity around the country.
  Typical electricity tunnel (c) National Grid
  There’s already an electricity cable tunnel under the Thames between Gravesend and Tilbury, but it is more than 50 years old and is coming to the end of its useful life, and the National Grid says that upgrading the cables inside the tunnel isn’t feasible anymore.
  They filed a planning application last year to dig a n
  
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• Southeastern offering 10,000 train tickets for £5 each

  20-03-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Southeastern is offering 10,000 train tickets for £5 each to be used over a single weekend in April, a couple of weeks before Easter.
  The £5 tickets will be valid for travel on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April across the Southeastern network, and will go on sale on Saturday 22 March via their website.
  Southeastern’s network covers towns and cities such as Canterbury, Ashford, Maidstone, and Rochester, as well as scenic countryside and coastal destinations like Margate, Hasting
  
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• CityFibre targets 1mn customers as it seeks crucial £1.5bn financing

  20-03-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  
  Altnet believes it can double subscribers this year after warning it would run out of funding in 2025
  
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