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• The London Buzz – 10th April 2025

  10-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Lambeth Council has admitted it will need to source more temporary accommodation in cheaper places outside of the city to save cash. Southwark News
  Alfresco dining, which flourished across the capital after the Covid pandemic, could be making a comeback with support from City Hall. Standard
  Camden councillors have waved through the borough’s development plans for the coming 15 years, including proposals to build thousands of new homes. Fitzrovia News
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• Tickets Alert: Hyde Park estate gardens open day

  10-04-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Three normally private gardens owned by the Church of England will be open to visitors for one day in June.
  (c) National Garden Scheme
  Although owned by the Church, through the Church Commissioners, the gardens actually sit within blocks of 1960s flats in Paddington on land that was owned by the Bishop of London and then rebuilt following WW2 damage. Each garden is planted sympathetically to reflect the surroundings while uniquely, The Water Gardens, an original ‘brutalist’ garden, f
  
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• Cartier sparkles at the V&A – A jewelled journey through royalty and pop icons

  10-04-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The blingist bling that ever did bling has blung its way into the V&A Museum’s new exhibition devoted to the master of bling — Cartier.If you watch Antique’s Roadshow, two names will make owners’ eyes light up with pound signs — Fabergé and Cartier. The V&A showed off Fabergé in 2021, and now it’s Cartier’s turn.
  Candidly, it doesn’t matter what anyone says about this exhibition as it’s a safe one to put on — the a
  
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• Blue plaque honours Jill Viner, London’s first female bus driver

  10-04-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Kingston’s new bus station has gained a blue plaque that celebrates London’s first bus driver, Jill Viner, who qualified as a bus driver in 1974. Jill Viner became the first woman to drive a London bus licensed to carry passengers in May 1974 and was a pioneer in leading the way for women to drive passenger buses professionally.
  Newly installed plaque (c) ianVisits
  According to a news article in the Daily Mirror, Viner qualfiied as a bus driver at the Chiswick training centre on Frid
  
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