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• The curious rise of 4iG

  13-11-2025 16:39
  A formerly tiny Hungarian IT services provider gets many new leases on life
  
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• The City’s historic Simpsons Tavern chophouse to reopen after long legal battle

  13-11-2025 15:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The historic Simpsons Tavern chophouse in the City of London is to reopen, but not as Simpsons, after a deal was struck with another restaurant company.
  Simpsons Tavern (c) ianVisits
  Simpsons Tavern has been open in its narrow alley location since 1757 and was famous for its unfussy food and much more, its determined retention of 19th-century dining, with communal tables shared by diners.
  Like most restaurants, Simpsons was forced to close during the pandemic lockdown and had previously said it
  
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• Fulham Broadway Tube station’s glass canopy gets long-awaited repair

  13-11-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Fulham Broadway tube station is about to get a major facelift, with a full refurbishment of its distinctive Victorian glazed roof.The District line station first opened in 1880, complete with the wrought-iron trusses that still span the platforms today. The roof was last partially overhauled in 2003, when the main entrance was relocated to the adjoining shopping centre, but those works mostly replaced broken glass panels rather than tackling the structure itself.
  However, since then, the glass h
  
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• Dazzling light trail brings 3D projections to the Old Royal Naval College

  13-11-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For eight days only, a large light display is filling the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.Some of it is visible from outside, behind the fences, but the headline light show is inside the chapel, where animated light displays have transformed the interior into a huge 3D cinema screen.
  This is Time by Luxmuralis, a combination of light and sound that starts in the Painted Hall, takes in the Ripley Tunnel, Queen Mary Undercroft, the Chapel, then continues outside through the Col
  
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• Cycle-to-Work perks could shrink while TfL hire bikes remain a little-known option for commuters

  13-11-2025 12:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There have been reports that the upcoming budget might cut the tax benefit of a cycle-to-work promotion that makes cycling to work cheaper.In essence, the cycle to work scheme allows an employee to buy or rent a bike with payments taken from their wages, but importantly, before they’ve paid tax on those wages. It varies a lot, but a taxpayer could save between 30% and 42% off the cost of buying a bike under the scheme.
  Although much of the online chatter is that the scheme might be scrappe
  
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• Southwark tube station gains heritage protection for its striking late-20th-century design

  13-11-2025 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The London Underground’s Southwark tube station has been granted listed status as an outstanding example of late 20th-century architecture.The station is noted for its Holden-inspired circular entrance hall and for its rather unique design below ground, with a large cavern leading to narrow space-age escalator tubes down to a second large cavern between the train platforms.Following years of campaigning, the station has now been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and S
  
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• Liberty Global chief says EU has its ‘foot on our neck’

  13-11-2025 06:00
  Telecoms group CEO Mike Fries criticises bloc’s heavy handed regulation and failure to implement Mario Draghi’s reforms
  
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