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• The London Buzz – 24th March 2025

  24-03-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Phone snatcher pinned to the ground after being nabbed by undercover officers Metro
  More than 400 residents have been forced to leave their flats for at least six months after a “catastrophic infrastructure failure” in their new-build. South London Press
  National Grid’s chief executive has said Heathrow had “enough power” from other substations following Friday’s fire that caused the airport to shut down. BBC News
  Residents
  
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• London Victorian steam museums forge new future following merger into a Heritage Trust

  24-03-2025 15:31 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Two of north London’s Victorian steam museums have merged into a single organisation, while preserving the two museums as individual sites.
  Markfield Beam Engine and Museum (c) ianVisits
  Following the merger, the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum and the Markfield Beam Engine and Museum are now part of a new umbrella organisation, the Heritage and Communities Trust. Both museums will retain their individual names and distinct identities but will have access to shared resources, expertise, and a
  
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• Greater Anglia launches accessibility improvements with SignLive

  24-03-2025 14:13 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Greater Anglia has launched a British Sign Language interpreter service which enables people who are deaf or hard of hearing to communicate with its customer relations teams.
  The train operator has partnered with SignLive, which provides remote British Sign Language interpreting on demand.
  Customers can use SignLive to speak to the train operator’s customer relations team about issues including delay repay, complaints and feedback, business travel, smart cards, operational train informatio
  
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• Get crafty with lots of hands on workshops during London Craft Week

  24-03-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One week in May is London Craft Week, during which a couple of hundred events across London are crammed into just a few days.London Craft Week events vary from someone showing off a single new fabric design, to exhibitions of new objects the shops are hoping to sell — and best of all, exhibitions and demonstrations of crafts at work.
  (a gripe – a lot of the events tell you who is doing something but not what they are doing, which means the key information is missing)
  Most of the exhi
  
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• Student housing proposed to sit above Thameslink tunnels near King’s Cross

  24-03-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unusual building has been proposed for a vacant site on top of the Thameslink railway tunnels between King’s Cross and Farringdon stations. If planning is approved, the 121-bed student accommodation would be located in the Britannia Street car park, which is above the Thameslink railway tunnels and next to the London Underground open-air cutting.
  Sheppard Robson / Planning documents
  Internally, it’s unremarkable, as student flats with lots of communal areas, and a roof terrace, bu
  
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• London’s Alleys: Western Mews, W9

  24-03-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a small Maida Vale mews that sits between the busy Harrow Road to the north and the Grand Union Canal to the south.The mews was originally called Carlton Mews, as the main road it leads off was Carlton Terrace. However, when Carlton Terrace was renamed as Great Western Road, the mews was also renamed to Western Mews. Presumably, Great Western Mews was seen as inappropriate.
  As with so many mews, what was originally a space for horses and staff was later turned into private homes for the
  
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