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• London Cable Car isn’t always expensive – here’s how to ride for under £2

  04-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The London Cable Car, often derided for the high cost of using it, does have a rather cheap way of crossing the Thames by dangleway if you want.Ordinarily, a single ticket costs £7, and a return costs £13 (soon to rise to £13.50).
  However, if you don’t mind buying a pack of 10 tickets in one go, then they will cost you just £19 for ten trips across the river.
  So, instead of paying £7, you can pay just £1.90 per trip.
  So long as you make at least three tr
  
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• West End streets could become a vast new public plaza under latest plans

  04-02-2026 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The wide road between Piccadilly Circus and St James Park could be turned into a pedestrian plaza after Westminster Council and the Crown Estate decided to proceed with previously announced plans.
  Early concept from 2025 (c) Westminster Council
  The proposals include making Regent Street St James’s, Waterloo Place and the south side of Piccadilly Circus traffic-free, creating more than 35,000 square metres of new public space in the heart of the capital.
  There would also be wider improvemen
  
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• From cassocks to coins: A brief history of Archbishops in Lambeth Palace’s library

  04-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Archbishop of Canterbury has regenerated into – gasp – a woman, and now her library has an exhibition about some of the past Archbishops.The exhibition, in the Lambeth Palace Library, is mainly a collection of objects relating to a range of Archbishops, with documents and drawings in one room, and, in a second, more secure room, the gold and silver that the church uses to remind people of the virtues of charity.
  In a darkened space, the cabinets open to display an archbishop&rsqu
  
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• The year Hyde Park was sold to propety developers for housing

  04-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Did you know that Hyde Park shouldn’t exist as a large park, because it was once sold for development into housing plots?Had that been carried out, the Serpentine wouldn’t exist, Kensington Palace would be surrounded by houses, and the Winter Wonderland would have its funfair somewhere else.
  To explain, it helps to know how Hyde Park (originally Hide Park) came to be.
  Hyde Park owes its origins to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when King Henry VIII seized open land on the outski
  
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• See the shortlist for the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

  04-02-2026 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award 2026 has opened for online voting, with 24 shortlisted images selected for the public to choose from.
  The shortlist was drawn from over 60,000 entries submitted by photographers in 113 countries and territories, alongside the 100 winning images announced in October 2025.
  The images range from large marine gatherings to intimate wildlife behaviour and also address environmental pressures such as shrinking sea ice, human&ndas
  
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• Russian spy spacecraft have intercepted Europe’s key satellites, officials believe

  04-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Unencrypted European communications are being targeted by Moscow
  
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