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• The London Buzz – 1st May 2025

  01-05-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Deer have returned to Greenwich Park for the first time in four years after their paddock was improved and extended. Greenwich Wire
  A global survey of lawyers and arbitrators has found that London remains the top choice of location for international arbitrations Legal Cheek
  Toy giant Lego is to move its London headquarters from Farringdon to new offices on the South Bank overlooking the Thames. Standard
  London is “a long way off” meeting Sir Sadiq
  
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• More loos for London Bridge station – as new toilets open at last

  01-05-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London Bridge station has nearly doubled the number of public toilets in the railway station after a second set of loos opened recently.
  (c) Network Rail
  To create the extra space, Network Rail converted two former retail units on the pedestrianised Stainer Street corridor into extra toilet facilities.  They include a mixture of female units (23, including accessible, family accessible, and standard), male units (12, including standard and accessible), and three unisex toilets: accessible,
  
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• National Maritime Museum’s glass-roofed court reopening in June

  01-05-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The National Maritime Museum’s large glass-covered central court is to reopen in June, just over a year after it closed for repairs and maintenance.
  Ocean Court in April 2025 (c) National Maritime Museum
  The Ocean Court closed in March 2024 to refurbish the 25-year-old roof. Since then, more than 23,000 square feet of sun-protected glazing have been installed over the museum’s central courtyard, preventing overheating in warmer climates.
  The museum has now confirmed that it will reop
  
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• From ancient sourdough to lab-grown meat – the Science Museum to explore the evolution of food

  01-05-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This summer, the Science Museum will open a free exhibition that examines the past, present, and future of the food we eat.
  The exhibition will look at the stories behind the everyday foods we consume, from 3,500 fermented sourdough bread to the first Quorn burger and the first beef steak grown outside a cow.
  Cricket burger packaging, 2025 (c) Wriggle Foods Limited
  The exhibition will highlight how science enabled growing global populations to be better fed in the 20th century, examining the ide
  
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• Find the Southgate Stocks

  01-05-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A village green in north London contains a relic from the days when criminals were locked in wooden stocks and publicly insulted.Although this type of punishment ceased in the 1870s, these stocks are relatively modern – they were installed in 1953. The modern punishment stocks did have precedent, though, as they were replacements for some older stocks that went missing during WWII.
  Made from oak and kept outside, they had deteriorated quite badly by the millennium, so the Southgate Green A
  
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• ‘Excellent Women’ author Barbara Pym celebrated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque

  01-05-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Barbara Pym, a 1950s novelist who was rediscovered in the 1970s and lauded for her social comedies, has become the latest person to be honoured with a Blue Plaque.
  Plaque prior to installation (c) English Heritage
  The plaque, which will be formally unveiled later today, will go on the side of 108 Cambridge Street in Pimlico, where Pym lived from November 1945 to autumn 1949. It was at this Pimlico flatshare that Pym started her writing career, drawing extensively on her experiences of living and
  
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