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• Bakerloo line extension gets Budget boost from local tax powers

  28-10-2026 15:15 via IanVisits
  
  The Bakerloo line extension got a boost in the Budget when the Chancellor announced that local regions can keep more local tax revenue to fund infrastructure projects.
  The policy change means money raised locally can be spent locally.
  Crucially, it allows regional mayors – such as the Mayor of London – to borrow against future tax revenues. Those powers already exist, but tend to be limited to smaller projects decided by local authorities, rather than regional mayors.
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• New public park proposed for Canary Wharf development

  28-10-2026 15:00 via IanVisits
  
  Canary Wharf could get a new park as part of plans for a major new JP Morgan office block next to Westferry Circus.
  Initial concept (c) Foster + Partners
  JP Morgan bought the Riverside site on the edge of the Thames in 2008 for a new headquarters, but the banking crisis halted progress almost immediately. They later moved into Lehman Brothers’ former London head office instead, but are now planning to develop the site at last.
  Although plans for the tower, to be designed by Foster + Partners a
  
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• Affordable art from Renaissance Italy fills a free British Museum exhibition

  28-10-2026 13:00 via IanVisits
  
  Images pasted onto walls, carried in pockets, and used for playing cards fill a room as the British Museum looks back on Italian Renaissance woodcut prints.Although not all of them are tiny, as the exhibition opens with a huge bird’s-eye view of Venice from around 1460-1516, but the majority in the exhibition were sold as affordable art to a populace that couldn’t afford a painting.
  Today, as rare survivors, they command rather higher prices, alas.
  Described by the museum as the first displa
  
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• Tickets Alert: The Barbican’s final free conservatory plants giveaway

  28-10-2026 12:00 via IanVisits
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of the Barbican Conservatory, a final plant-cutting giveaway has been announced ahead of its closure for refurbishment.
  Conservatory space (c) ianVisits
  Ahead of the conservatory’s closure, Wayward Plants have been taking thousands of cuttings from a wide range of specimens and propagating them at their reuse centre into new plants to be adopted.
  Wayward Plants will lead the adoption process, where you can learn about the different specimen types and how
  
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• One month to go until London Museum opens its new Smithfield home

  28-10-2026 11:30 via IanVisits
  
  Only one month remains until the London Museum reopens, where visitors can touch a brick scorched in the Great Fire, see the entire Cheapside Hoard, and watch Thameslink trains rumble past the museum’s basement.
  And free tickets to visit the museum on its opening day are now available.The former Museum of London closed in November 2022 and will reopen, later than originally planned, on 28th November 2026 at its new Smithfield site as the rebranded London Museum, with a controversial pigeon log
  
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• Gulliver to be freed from behind fences on east London estate

  28-10-2026 11:00 via IanVisits
  
  An abstract sculpture of Gulliver from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, created for children to play on, will be restored to its original use as a playground feature.
  Gulliver sculpture (c) ianVisits
  Created by sculptor Trevor Tennant and installed in Limehouse’s Locksley Estate in August 1958, Gulliver was designed as the centrepiece of a large children’s sandpit. The artist intended for children to scramble, swing, slide and hide behind the giant figure.Embed from Getty Images
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• ianVisits turns twenty — two decades of exploring London

  28-10-2026 08:00 via IanVisits
  
  ianVisits is 20 years old today. Happy birthday to me and all that jazz. Sadly, it’s the website’s anniversary, not mine, as I’m considerably older than that, with less hair, more wrinkles, and a bigger waistline. Anyway, twenty years ago today, I started a website and, rather unexpectedly, it’s still going.The first article appeared on 28th October 2006, with no grand strategy, just a promise of assorted observations, ideas, and occasional technical ramblings as I worked out what to do
  
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• Shares of Ambani’s Jio rise 21% in India’s biggest IPO

  28-10-2026 05:42 via Telecoms
  Telecoms business raises $3.2bn at $108bn valuation in relief to stock market hit by war in Iran
  
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• Ambani’s $130bn Jio soars in India’s biggest listing

  28-10-2026 05:42 via Telecoms
  Telecoms business raises $3.2bn at $108bn valuation in relief to stock market hit by war in Iran
  
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