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• The London Buzz – 23rd April 2025

  23-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Plans from London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan to part-pedestrianise Oxford Street have been described by residents as “senseless” and a “vanity project”. Standard
  Rotherhithe politicians have hit out at the Met after it moved local police to a station in central London – a good 45-minute walk away from the area. South London Press
  A pensioner was beaten to death by his Covent Garden neighbour in a row over shutting the front gate, a cou
  
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• Secure ‘quantum messages’ sent over telecoms network in breakthrough

  23-04-2025 17:12
  
  Researchers harness quantum mechanics to create communications system that can avoid being hacked
  
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• Countdown begins: One year until opening of new garden to commemorate life of Queen Elizabeth II

  23-04-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work on a new garden inside Regent’s Park to commemorate the late Queen Elizabeth II is progressing, and the Royal Parks says it is on target to open next spring.
  New garden and tower (c) HTA Design LLP
  Now four months into the sixteen-month build, key features are emerging, including newly laid paths, and work is beginning on a circular pond, designed to enhance habitats for local wildlife. More than 200,000 bulbs and 40 trees have been ordered to create colourful nectar-rich planting. Re
  
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• BT agrees deal to sell Italian business

  23-04-2025 17:00
  
  UK telecoms group reaches agreement with Retelit as it retrenches internationally
  
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• Network Rail painting tracks white to beat the summer heat

  23-04-2025 16:28 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Look out for white railway tracks, as Network Rail has started painting some key sections with white paint — to cool them down.
  (c) Network Rail
  Over the next few weeks, approximately 1,500 litres of white paint – the equivalent of 30,000 square metres — will be applied to the railway tracks. By painting parts of the rail white, they absorb less heat – 5°C to 10°C cooler than one left unpainted.
  The issue is that hot rail tracks expand and can buckle in the heat,
  
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• Clever tube trivia in the Elizabeth line’s new station stickers

  23-04-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The new ghostbusting stickers that recently appeared in some Elizabeth line stations have a little noticed feature in their pattern that’s quite clever, once you spot it.
  The thing to look for is that Transport for London (TfL) has customised the moquette-inspired patterns for each of the four Elizabeth line stations where they are being used.
  Have you spotted it yet?
  Look again, and notice how the moquette colours are different at each of the stations.
  You might have spotted that some of
  
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• Exhibition tells the story of the slaves who fueled Britain’s postal empire

  23-04-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A small photo of a woman carrying two lumps of coal is unlike any image of a woman carrying two lumps of coal you could imagine. It’s also the image that triggered an exploration of the little-known story of slaves on Britain’s 19th-century postal ships at the Postal Museum.Although the UK had abolished slavery in stages between 1807 and 1838, it didn’t apply to other countries, and didn’t stop British firms trading with countries that used slave labour.
  So, yay for Brita
  
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• BT agrees deal to sell remainder of its Italian business

  23-04-2025 11:49
  UK telecoms group enters preliminary agreement to sell stake in BT Italia to Retelit
  
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• BT agrees deal to sell remainder of Italian business

  23-04-2025 11:49
  UK telecoms group reaches preliminary agreement to sell stake in BT Italia to Retelit as it retrenches internationally
  
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• Natural History Museum film will compress 4-billion-years of earth’s history into one hour

  23-04-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Sir David Attenborough is to narate a new film that will be shown at the Natural History Museum compressing the 4 billion years of Earth’s history into just under one hour.
  (c) Trustees of the Natural History Museum
  Located in the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery, the film will use a mix of cinematic projection technology and real-life footage of our natural world that will bring the gallery walls and floor to life.
  From our impact on the great whales of the oceans to our relationship with o
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: The Red Lion Playhouse, E1

  23-04-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just around the corner from Whitechapel station, the site of what could be London’s oldest purpose built theatre stage has been opened up as a new pocket park.The Red Lion was an Elizabethan playhouse built in 1567. It was possibly the first purpose-built venue in the city since Roman times. Although it seemed to be commercially successful at first, its location outside London (in modern-day Whitechapel) was a problem, and it lasted barely a year or two before closing.
  The venture was soon
  
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