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• The London Buzz – 15th June 2026

  15-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
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  Today’s London news round-up:
  Multi-millionaire banker with royal connections arrested in hunt for notorious ‘Putney Pusher’ LBC
  Street drinkers could face £100 fines in Camden after the council approved new powers to crack down on alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour in the borough. Fitzrovia News
  Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant heads to court to challenge eviction  Restaurant
  A homeowner in Collier Row ha
  
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• Gandhi autograph and suffragette protests among treasures in new London archive

  15-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London has gained a free history archive after more than 200 years of records, photographs, films and artefacts were uncovered and catalogued during the restoration of Union Chapel’s Sunday School building.
  Friends archive work (c) Union Chapel
  The new Sunday School Stories archive spans the period from 1799 to the present day and reveals the social, political and cultural history of both Union Chapel and London itself.
  The collection is now available online, with in-person access also off
  
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• Tower of London doubles price of late-night Ceremony of the Keys

  15-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Tower of London has doubled the cost of attending the late-night Ceremony of the Keys, from cheap to still very affordable.The Ceremony of the Keys is the formal locking up of the tower, and it takes place every single evening at 10pm. Although it’s a private event inside the Tower, each evening a small group of people are allowed to watch. And you can apply to be in that group.
  Attending the ceremony used to be free of charge, but you also had to write in for tickets and usually wait
  
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• Exhibition celebrates the women who made a living painting dogs

  15-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At a time when women could struggle to carve out a career as an artist, there was a niche they excelled at – painting dogs. And to show off that niche, an exhibition has opened, displaying over 120 doggy artworks painted by women.Appropriately, it’s at the Royal Kennel Club, and almost emphasising how normalised the idea of women painting dogs was, about half the club’s art collection was painted by women. That is compared to a tiny fraction of historic female artists in most a
  
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• Lumo to launch Starlink based Wi-Fi on East Coast trains this autumn

  15-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers travelling on Lumo’s services are set to benefit from improved onboard internet connections, as the rail operator prepares to introduce Starlink satellite technology across its fleet this autumn.
  (c) Lumo
  The upgrade will be provided on Lumo’s trains running along the  East Coast Main Line between London and Scotland.
  Unlike traditional onboard Wi-Fi systems, which rely on mobile phone networks and trackside infrastructure, Starlink uses a network of low Earth orbit s
  
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• Government strips Epping Forest Council of major planning powers

  15-06-2026 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Epping Forest District Council has joined a very small list of councils that have lost their power to determine major planning applications after exceeding the government’s threshold for planning decisions overturned on appeal.Under planning rules, developers can appeal if they believe a council has wrongly refused an application. To discourage councils from rejecting schemes without sound planning grounds, the government monitors how many refusals are later overturned.
  Councils are expect
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bride Court, City of London, EC4

  15-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This covered late Victorian alley sits next to what was once the heart of England’s noisy and boisterous newspaper trade, but today is a rather quieter space.The alley sits on the southwestern corner of the large junction where Fleet Street, Farringdon Street, New Bridge Street and Ludgate Hill meet. The corner plot was once the site of the Abbot of Winchcombe’s Inn, and later the Bishop of St David also built an inn next door.
  However, the alley quickly appeared as the area began to
  
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• SFR’s €20bn break-up can win watchdog approval, says Bouygues

  15-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Lead bidder for French telecoms operator hopes EU’s competitive drive will offset regulatory concerns about merger
  
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