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• The London Buzz – 9th June 2026

  09-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
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  Today’s London news round-up:
  China accused of ‘snubbing’ judicial review over controversial London mega-embassy Jurist News
  First Putney gym to win community protection now battling TfL over rent Putney News
  Brent Council has been ordered to pay out £2,500 for the “distress and difficulties” it caused a mum and her three children after they were left in unsuitable housing for 10 months. Harrow Online
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• VodafoneThree bids for TalkTalk consumer business

  09-06-2026 16:00 via ft.com
  Acquisition would help UK’s largest mobile operator fulfil ambition to double its broadband business
  
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• Tickets Alert: Backstage tours of the Eventim Apollo

  09-06-2026 15:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This summer, there’s going to be the first in a series of backstage tours of Hammersmith’s famous Eventim Apollo.
  (c) Eventim Apollo
  Originally opened in 1932 and renowned for its Art Deco architecture, the Grade II*-listed venue has hosted generations of legendary music, comedy, theatre and cultural events.
  There are three events – one for performers, a stage show, and one offering the backstage tours.
  Centre Stage – Saturday 8th August
  A rare chance for music fans to pe
  
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• Blue plaque honours East End anti-racism pioneer Kamal Chunchie

  09-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A blue plaque has been unveiled on a sailors’ hostel in Poplar to commemorate Kamal Chunchie, the pastor, community worker and anti-racist campaigner whose work transformed the lives of Black and Asian communities in London’s docklands.Installed by English Heritage on the Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest in Jeremiah Street, the plaque marks the building where Chunchie’s mission first took shape. Working there between 1922 and 1924, he encountered Black and Asian seamen and th
  
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• Pride Month on the move with new TfL art trail and audio tour

  09-06-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is marking Pride Month with the launch of a new audio tour celebrating LGBTQIA+ stories across the capital’s transport network, while also commemorating the 10th anniversary of the distinctive Pride-themed pedestrian crossings in Trafalgar Square.
  (c) TfL
  Produced by Art on the Underground in partnership with OUTbound, TfL’s LGBTQIA+ staff network, the free Pride Audio Tour invites Londoners to explore five artworks across the network while listening to per
  
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• The many faces of Marilyn Monroe on display in London exhibition

  09-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are nearly 300 Marilyn Monroes in the National Portrait Gallery at the moment as they put on a centenary exhibition about the woman whose image was fixed by an untimely death.The exhibition opens with two images, one instantly recognisable as an Andy Warhol print, but opposite something small and easy to overlook – an early, untouched photo of a young lady. That’s the Norma Jeane who would become Marilyn Monroe.
  Then there’s room after room of Marilyn. A smorgasbord of Ma
  
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• Tickets Alert: Explore miniature worlds at London’s Bonsai treehouses exhibition

  09-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The team that brings us the Gingerbread city in the winter has turned to the Japanese art of Bonsai trees for its summer exhibition.
  Galina Nelyubova For Unsplash+
  On display will be a collection of bonsai specimens alongside treehouse designs, created by architects and designers, that are inspired by the distinct form and character of these ancient trees.
  Each tree has its own story, and every treehouse design explores this year’s theme: “Together”.
  Bonsai are not naturally mi
  
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• What phantom traffic jams can teach us about crowded Tube escalators

  09-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Have you ever stepped onto an escalator intending to walk up the left-hand side, only to find yourself trapped behind a wall of people standing still because a bottleneck has formed ahead?
  And wished there were some way to make it clear?
  As it happens, there is.
  Oddly enough, the answer comes from the way traffic behaves on motorways.
  Elizabeth line’s Farringdon station in the rush hour (c) ianVisits
  Drivers have long experienced the curious phenomenon of crawling through a traffic jam, ex
  
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