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• The London Buzz – 13th June 2025

  13-06-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Old London – Balham
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The builders are booked and are about to begin work restoring The Black Cap gay pub Camden New Journal
  ‘Canary Wharf costs half as much as Westminster’ – [civil service] departments outline estate plans CSW
  First cycle lane opens at Meridian Water development Enfield Dispatch
  Clawing to stay: The fight to keep London’s first cat cafe in Bethnal Green open The Slice
  Islington Council is threatening to evict a fo
  
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• Lift 109 offering longer visits at the top of the Battersea Power station chimney

  13-06-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Lift 109, the glass elevator that pops out of the top of a Battersea Power Station chimney, has started offering early morning visits, with a longer stay when you get to the top.A normal visit gives people 8-10 minutes at the top of the chimney, but their new Early Riser tickets gives you 20 minutes at the top to take in the view. Additionally, depending on your perspective, the morning visit omits the multimedia exhibition at the beginning, which, frankly, is a somewhat time-consuming addition
  
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• A new Beefeater joins the Tower of London

  13-06-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The newest Beefeater to join the Tower of London’s 540-year-old tradition of having special guards has been named, as Andy Harris, a former Weapons Technician and Warrant Officer in the Royal Air Force.
  Yeoman Warder Andy Harris (c) Historic Royal Palaces
  Yeoman Warder Andy Harris is the latest recruit to this historic role, which dates back to 1485, and will join 34 other Yeoman Warders who live and work at the Tower of London.
  As with all Beefeaters, the newest recruit is a military vete
  
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• A list of outdoor screens showing Wimbledon 2025

  13-06-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  As traditional as cream and strawberries are the large screens that pop up around London showing the Wimbledon tennis matches during the summer.
  As you might expect, seats tend to get grabbed fast for the big matches, but you’ll often be able to sit on the floor or grass, so bring a rug.
  The ones I have found so far are below. If I’ve missed any, add them to the comments at the bottom of this page. Thanks.
  Battersea
  12th and 13th July – Bowling Green, Battersea Park
  Watch the W
  
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• Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse

  13-06-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?The Uffington White Horse, an iron-age era hill figure formed from deep trenches cut into the Oxfordshire countryside and filled with white chalk, and occasionally it needs rechalking.
  You’ll be given a hammer and a bucket of chalk and asked to bash the chalk into the monument to give it a clean fresh look.This year, the rechalking will take place over the weekend of 28th and 29th June 2025.
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• UK government ‘anxious’ altnets could collapse, Liberty Global boss says

  13-06-2025 06:00
  Mike Fries claims business secretary Jonathan Reynolds wants big telecoms companies to rescue struggling altnets
  
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