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• BT to carve out new ‘international’ unit as group refocuses on UK

  15-05-2025 13:43
  FTSE 100 telecoms company considers potential sale of non-UK operations
  
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• Half-price tickets to half the Postal Museum in June

  15-05-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, half of the Postal Museum will close for refurbishment work, so they’re offering half-price tickets to visit the half that will be open.
  The bit that’s closing is the Mail Rail ride, which will be upgraded with a virtual ride for people who can’t get into the small carriages that run through the narrow mail rail tunnels.
  Concept design of the museum’s planned immersive projection space (c) Hayley Sharpe
  However, the museum’s exhibition side and permanent
  
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• Owners ordered to fill in illegal basement dug under 300-year old Mayfair house

  15-05-2025 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The owners of a 300-year-old Georgian townhouse who dug a basement underneath it without permission have been told to fill it in again.The house, on Mayfair’s Park Street, is an early 18th-century townhouse built in the late 1720s that has survived largely intact, particularly the main interior levels. The current owners bought the house for just under £3 million in 2010 (so it is worth considerably more now) and shortly afterwards applied for planning permission to dig a second-leve
  
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• Visiting St John’s church, Stoneleigh

  15-05-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s not often that a modern church can be said to have been built at the same time as a purpose-built town, but that happened in the 1930s on London’s borders.Stoneleigh is a town that straddles the railway and can date its existence to 1860s when John Jeffries Stone bought about 1,100 acres of fields and woods in the area. Oddly, when he died in 1879, his will required that the land be sold for housing, but it seems his inheritors preferred the fields as they managed to hold off an
  
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