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• The London Buzz – 8th May 2025

  08-05-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Lawyers working for a housing charity suing Haringey council used fake AI-generated cases in their submission. The judge was not impressed. Civil Litigation Brief
  A huge row has broken out over proposals to introduce parking charges at one of London’s most famous grassroots football venues. Standard
  The root cause of a fire which led to the shutdown of Heathrow Airport and affected hundreds of thousands of journeys worldwide “remains unknown&rdquo
  
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• Charing Cross station is getting a Changing Places accessible toilet

  08-05-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Charing Cross station’s long-closed pub is about to get a new function – as an accessible toilet built to the modern Changing Places grade.
  Closed pub (c) ianVisits
  The former Beer House pub and the Burger King next to it have been vacant for some time now, but regular visitors may have noticed in recent months that something seems to be happening.
  What’s being planned is a larger retail unit by merging the pub and burger shops (and wouldn’t beer and burger be a good name
  
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• Jimmy Somerville donates memorabilia to Queer Britain

  08-05-2025 13:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In 1984, Bronski Beat, released their debut album, The Age of Consent, in response to the age of consent for gay men, which at the time in the UK was 21 years old.
  Now, there’s a small exhibition of items donated by their lead singer, Jimmy Somerville to the Queer Britain museum gallery.The display includes T-Shirts from the ACT-UP campaign, a customised Levi’s jacket, hand typed lyrics to Bronski Beat track ‘Screaming’ and promotional posters for ‘Smalltown Boy&rsq
  
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• Public consultation begins on Queen Elizabeth II tribute for St James’s Park

  08-05-2025 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Five potential designs for the Queen Elizabeth II Memorial, which will be installed in St James’s Park, have been shown off for public comment.
  They’re all bridges that will span St James’s Park’s lake, so the memorial will also be functional as well, and should help reduce the overcrowding on the existing blue bridge that crosses the lake.
  The designs range from simple elegant bridges to a rather fat floral-inspired design, a double-decker of a bridge, and one design tha
  
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• Battle of Britain flypast over Central London this evening

  08-05-2025 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A short notice heads up that there will be one or more WWII planes flying over central London this evening.
  The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight maintains several WWII-era planes, including a Lancaster bomber that led the VE Day flypast over London on Bank Holiday Monday. One, or more, of their planes will fly over London this evening, and as there’s an event on Horseguards Parade, the flypast is scheduled to fly right over that.
  So, weather permitting, it’s something to look out fo
  
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• Revealing the restoration of Richmond station

  08-05-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For the past couple of years, Richmond station has been undergoing a restoration to reveal its Art Deco heritage, and parts are starting to appear behind the builder’s hoardings.Although the entrance doors and front facade were cleaned a year ago, they’ve also been working on the station interior, bringing back some of the lost or hidden heritage.
  One of the unexpected survivors was the 1937 timber and green glass frieze that ran around the inside of the station, advertising services
  
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• Altice creditors brace for next showdown with Drahi

  08-05-2025 06:00
  
  Analysts and investors believe restructuring of international business could be more aggressive than French unit
  
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