Telecom news

• UK needs more powers to intervene when telecoms providers fail, minister says

  26-10-2026 23:19 via Telecoms
  Lisa Nandy tells MPs she is concerned about the sector’s ‘financial fragility’ in the wake of broadband provider TalkTalk’s near-collapse
  
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• London’s Alleys: Powell’s Walk, Chiswick, W4

  26-10-2026 08:00 via IanVisits
  
  This narrow passage, surrounded along most of its route by high brick walls, links an old church with a since-demolished manor house.It’s an old route, showing up in John Rocque’s map of 10 miles around London from 1746, as a route from the church through fields to the once rural Burlington Lane – which is today a very busy wide road leading to the Hogarth Roundabout.
  OS map 1866
  There is a mystery about the name, as most online sources say that the alley was originally called Paul’s Wal
  
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• Last buses run down Oxford Street as pedestrianisation kicks in

  26-10-2026 01:01 via IanVisits
  
  Just before 8pm on Sunday evening, the last buses and taxis made their way along the half of Oxford Street that is now fully pedestrianised.In the hours leading up to the closure, trucks bearing the logos of well-known maintenance and construction companies started parking along the street, and a small army of hi-vis workers slowly gathered in groups.
  All hints that something was about to happen.
  Bus nerds could be seen in the front of the upper decks of the last buses to ply the street, getting
  
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