Telecom news

• Book Signing Alert – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain

  05-11-2025 21:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For people of a certain age, many a fond hour could have been spent flicking back and forth through Fighting Fantasy novels, trying to find the treasure and defeat the demons within.
  The Warlock of Firetop Mountain collectors edition
  These written games were the precursors of the modern computer fantasy game, but the enforced slowness of flicking between the pages induced a sense of exciting anticipation as you spent a few seconds waiting for the result of your choice.
  You just don’t get t
  
  Read more

• Railfuture urges end of dedicated Gatwick Express to boost Brighton Mainline capacity

  05-11-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A railway lobbying group is calling for the Gatwick Express to be shut down as a dedicated rail link and for its trains to be reused to increase capacity on the busy Brighton Mainline.
  1994 Gatwick Express advert
  The organisation Railfuture argues that Gatwick Express trains run with spare capacity because regular travellers know that Southern and Thameslink services are much cheaper and comparable in travel times.
  However, the conventional train services are themselves overcrowded, which makes
  
  Read more

• Tickets Alert: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge

  05-11-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you fancy spending Christmas Eve in Cambridge, then the ballot to attend the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College is now open.
  King’s College (c) ianVisits
  A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is broadcast live on BBC Radio on Christmas Eve afternoon, and it’s important to point out that it’s not the same as the Carols From King’s shown on BBC2 in the evening.
  The famous Carols From Kings is actually prerecorded earlier in the month (sorry for t
  
  Read more

• Openreach boss threatens to scrap UK fibre target in dispute with regulator

  05-11-2025 13:00 via ft.com
  Clive Selley also warns that tax rises in the Budget will undermine investment in internet coverage
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• From the Shadows: Rare reunion of Wright of Derby masterpieces opens in London

  05-11-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  As winter’s shadows fall across the land, it’s an appropriate moment for the National Gallery to open an exhibition by the master of shadows and light – Joseph Wright of Derby.The exhibition is the latest where the gallery takes one of its important paintings, in this case The Air Pump, and brings together a number of the artist’s other works in other collections to form a family group.
  Joseph Wright of Derby was a well-regarded portrait painter, but for a few years betwe
  
  Read more

• The V&A’s new East Museum confirms opening date and debut exhibition

  05-11-2025 10:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London will get a new museum next April, as the V&A has confirmed the delayed opening date for its V&A East Museum in the Olympic Park.
  V&A East Museum – Oct 2022 (c) ianVisits
  The five-storey hermit crab shaped building in the park’s East Bank development will open on Saturday 18th April 2026, with an inaugural exhibition that will take a look at 126 years of Black Music in the UK. To coincide, V&A East will launch a major partnership with BBC Music, including compli
  
  Read more

• London’s Public Art: Father Thames by Stephen Duncan

  05-11-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If a naked bearded man is a representation of the River Thames, what part of London would be his willy?Is the unexpected question you might think of when stumbling upon said naked man in Nine Elms. He is, of course, not a literal representation of the river, but an anthropomorphic personification of the river.
  This particular representation is a work of art by Stephen Duncan, and according to the small plaque underneath was commissioned by Regalian Properties in 1988.
  That’s because they&r
  
  Read more

• SWR signs £66m support deal with Alstom for new Arterio trains

  05-11-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  South Western Railway (SWR) has signed a long-term technical and maintenance support contract with Alstom for the operator’s new Class 701 “Arterio” fleet.
  Arterio train at Waterloo station (c) ianVisits
  The trains are officially the British Rail Class 701 Aventra supplied by Alstom, and were ordered in 2017 and the first were expected to go into public service in the middle of 2019. However, it took until late last year for them to start regular passenger services, and there a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• AI to power new fight against scam callers

  05-11-2025 01:01 via ft.com
  UK telecoms groups to block ‘number spoofing’ scams from criminals in overseas call centres
  
  Read more

Follow @Telecom_UK_ on Twitter!