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• Cisco to cut more jobs, issues gloomy revenue outlook

  18-05-2017 02:00
  Cisco will cut a further 1,100 jobs and has issued a gloomy revenue forecast for the current quarter, as the networking giant grapples with its transition to a more software-centric organisation.The latest redundancies are in addition to the 5…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Billionaire Xavier Niel could be the jolt Vodafone needs

  10-07-2026 19:03 via ft.com
  Investors hope £4.4bn move for telecoms group augurs quicker and sharper improvements
  
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• The restored Banqueting House reopens fully next month

  10-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The restored Banqueting House in central London will be formally reopening in August, following a major restoration and a year of smaller previews.The Banqueting House has witnessed dramatic moments in history, including the execution of King Charles I. Originally created as a space to stage entertainments and completed in 1622 as part of the Palace of Whitehall, the Banqueting House is a masterpiece of classical architecture designed by Inigo Jones for James I. It was intended to host extravaga
  
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• This week’s theatre ticket sale offers from London Theatre Direct

  10-07-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct.
  Royal Court Theatre (c) ianVisits
  From £10The Enormous Crocodile – Lyric HammersmithOpens 29 July 2026For my lunch today I would like… a nice juicy little child!From £10 – SAVE UP TO 47%
   CinderellaOpens 14th November 2026When the shoe fits… a fairytale begins.From £13 – SAVE UP TO 41%
   August Wilson’s FencesOpens 6th October 2026A powerful Ameri
  
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• Flash sale on Eurostar tickets to the European mainland

  10-07-2026 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Eurostar has launched a flash sale offering up to 50% off its premium train tickets, with one-way fares from London starting at £35 for a limited time.
  But only for couples and friends. If you’re a single person, then catch a plane instead.
  (c) ianVisits
  The sale cuts the price of selected one-way Eurostar Plus and Eurostar Premier tickets to Paris, Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, but does not apply to Standard class tickets.
  The offer is available for purchases before 11pm
  
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• Giant embroidery exhibition celebrates 400 years of London’s Upholders

  10-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large circular embroidered artwork has gone on display for a couple of weeks to mark the 400th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Upholders‘ grant of a royal charter.The artwork is a 2.3-metre diameter embroidery using the ancient English embroidery technique known as Opus Anglicanum. Designed by international iconographer Aidan Hart, the artwork brings together the skills of the Royal School of Needlework, Fine Cell Work and embroidery teams from 12 English cathedrals.
  The twelve
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry arrives in Britain under overnight police escort

  10-07-2026 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in the UK.
  It arrived in the UK yesterday, and, escorted by the Kent and Metropolitan police, it was taken from Folkestone to the British Museum in an overnight operation.
  That journey marked the first time the tapestry had been in the UK since it was made, probably by Canterbury embroiderers, and it was soon afterwards sent to Bayeux Cathedral in France. It has remained in France ever since.The British Museum says that it spent the past year working with colleagu
  
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• Xavier Niel becomes largest Vodafone shareholder

  10-07-2026 08:24 via ft.com
  French billionaire purchases stake from Emirati group e& in move to bolster European telecoms businesses
  
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• French billionaire Xavier Niel becomes Vodafone’s top shareholder

  10-07-2026 08:24 via ft.com
  Niel’s Vega entity acquired £4.4bn stake from Emirati group e&
  
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• Developer wants to cut museum space in favour of student housing

  09-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A property development in the City of London that will include a new permanent home for the Migration Museum is seeking to reduce the museum’s size, although it says this is with the museum’s consent.
  (c) 3XN, Migration Museum and Dominus
  The museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. It will include an educational outreach programme to engage with diverse communities across London and
  
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• Charing Cross station closing for three weeks later this month

  09-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There are just a couple of weeks to go before Charing Cross station closes for nearly three weeks due to maintenance work on the railway tracks.
  Charing Cross station (c) ianVisits
  From Sunday 26th July to Sunday 16th August 2026, both Charing Cross and Waterloo East stations will close to Southeastern services while a £20 million upgrade is carried out to the track, platforms, and structures in and around the stations.
  Additional weekend closures will take place before and after the main
  
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• TfL to shut Oyster Photocard website for eight days for system upgrade

  09-07-2026 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is warning customers that its Oyster Photocard website will be unavailable for more than a week later this month while the ageing system undergoes a major upgrade.
  60+ London Oyster photocard (c) TfL
  The Oyster Photocard online service will be taken offline from 16th to 24th July to allow TFL to carry out maintenance and upgrade the back-office system that supports Oyster Photocards. The upgrade is intended to improve the reliability of the service, with TfL saying the
  
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• A Victorian archive room becomes London’s most atmospheric exhibition

  09-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to step through a normally locked metal door and enter a preserved world, little changed since its construction in the 1850s.This is one of the remaining fireproof storerooms from what was, at the time, the national archives held at the Public Record Office, known as the “strong-box of the Empire”.
  And at the moment, it’s open to visit because an audio artwork is taking place inside. The art is made up of people reading out extracts from letters that tell
  
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• The London Buzz – 8th July 2026

  08-07-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London – Croydon, North End, decorated to mark the Jubilee of Croydon’s incorporation in 1933
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Tennis fans are being rushed from Wimbledon to a major London hospital, which is seeing a near record high number of A&E admissions as heatwaves hit the capital. Standard
  The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL London Centric
  Just over a year and a half after the old Market House in Brixton was turned into a curious Iris
  
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• London’s oldest charter heads to British Museum for first-ever loan

  08-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the Bayeux Tapestry goes on display at the British Museum later this year, it will be joined by London’s oldest document, the William Charter that recognised London’s importance to the all-conquering monarch.
  The William Charter – photo by ianVisits
  The charter, dating from 1067, is occasionally on display in the Guildhall gallery but has never previously been loaned to an exhibition before.
  The William Charter bears one of the earliest surviving seals from William the Con
  
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• Tickets Alert: Summer evening openings of Fulham Palace’s walled garden

  08-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fulham Palace, the former home of the Bishops of London, is opening its walled garden to the public in the evenings for the first time.
  The Tudor Gate (c) ianVisits
  The walled garden dates to the mid-18th century when Bishop Terrick redesigned much of Fulham Palace’s landscape. Reopened in 2012 after an extensive restoration, it includes a knot garden, vinery, kitchen garden, apple orchard, apple tree arch, beehives, grass lawns, and borders along the walls filled with flowers and fruit tr
  
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• The beauty of botany: RHS exhibition showcases plants as works of art

  08-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of floral art is fusing science and art into a single collection for the annual RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show.It celebrates the ability of artists to record plants in a manner that is both scientifically rigorous but also aesthetically pleasing, and continues the long tradition of drawing plants for study. Filling three rooms, the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is a collection of detailed paintings, illustrations and photographs that celebrate the remarkable diversity o
  
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• Tickets go on sale for London’s newest museum – the Trent Park House of Secrets

  08-07-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s newest museum, the Trent Park House of Secrets, opens to the public in a couple of weeks time, and tickets have now gone on sale.
  Aerial View of Trent Park House as it once looked. Courtesy of Houghton Hall Archives
  In the 1920s and 1930s, Trent Park House was Sir Philip Sassoon’s glamorous country retreat, host to prime ministers, royalty and film stars. A decade later, it held a darker secret. Prisoners of war, including captured German generals and senior officers, were h
  
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• Virgin Media fined £28mn for preventing customers from cancelling contracts

  08-07-2026 09:08 via ft.com
  Ofcom uncovers delay tactics that meant millions of calls were likely to have been mishandled
  
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• South London station chosen to trial a new look for Britain’s railways

  08-07-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A south London station has been chosen to trial a new “model stations” concept that aims to declutter the stations to make them easier to use.The station at Gipsy Hill has been visually refreshed, but the main difference is that, rather than just slapping some clean paint on to make it look cleaner, the train operator, GTR, is also looking at the entire layout of the station.
  There are limits as to what can be done, but their Model Stations concept aims to develop a series of core te
  
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• See the ‘Red King’ and 120 masterpieces inside Buckingham Palace this summer

  08-07-2026 01:01 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A study for the striking “red king” portrait of King Charles III is going on display at Buckingham Palace as part of the palace’s summer opening, along with the reopening of the refurbished Picture Gallery.
  (c) Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2026 | Royal Collection Trust. Photograph: Ben Fitzpatrick
  The large oil painting by Jonathan Yeo for the Drapers’ Company’s official Coronation portrait was rather controversial when first unveiled, but looks much better
  
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• Aberdeen-backed internet provider seeks buyer after steep losses

  07-07-2026 20:25 via ft.com
  Airband initiates process to find new owner in move that puts FTSE 100 asset manager’s £200mn investment at risk
  
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• HS2’s only single-bore tunnel completed in west London as it prepares to vanish from sight

  07-07-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The only single-bore tunnel on the HS2 railway has been completed, although before long it will disappear beneath thousands of tonnes of earth as the cut-and-cover structure is buried from view.  The new tunnel is positioned between the twin-bore Northolt tunnel and the Colne Valley viaduct – Britain’s longest railway bridge, which was completed last year.
  Inside Copthall tunnel August 2025 (c) HS2
  The Copthall tunnel near West Ruislip in west London was going to be an open-air
  
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• Stansted Express trials running overnight trains on Friday nights

  07-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers catching the first flights out of London Stansted Airport on Saturday mornings will have a new rail option this summer, as the Stansted Express launches a trial of overnight train services.
  A Stansted Express train at Stansted Airport railway station. (c) Greater Anglia
  The new services, running every Friday night into Saturday morning until 25th September, are aimed at travellers heading for early morning departures as well as those arriving on late-night flights.
  During the trial, t
  
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• From sketchbook to print: British Museum celebrates 250 years of John Constable

  07-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  To mark the 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth, there’s an exhibition of his early sketches and prints of the English landscape, some of which would later go on to be used for his famous paintings.Some of them are instantly recognisable as typical Constable’s rural idealised paintings, such as one of Petworth Church and Windmill, or of Stonehenge minus the tourists, and his seascapes from Brighton.
  Probably the most recognisable, especially if you visited the Tate Brit
  
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• TfL offering free cycle hire on Sundays in July

  03-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s Santander Cycles will be free on Sundays throughout July, as Transport for London (TfL) is offering unlimited 60-minute rides every Sunday all month from 5th to 26th July.TfL Cycle Sundays offer codes are available on the Santander Cycles discounts page or in the Santander Cycles app, and can be redeemed at any docking station terminal by selecting a Day Pass and entering the code. Customers will need to use a bank card or their mobile phone to complete the process.
  The Day Pass &
  
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• British Museum displays peace medal that Britain captured during the American Revolution

  03-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A medal struck to mark peace between the American revolutionaries and the Wabanaki Confederacy – and then nicked by the British – is now on display in the British Museum.The Washington Peace Medal is the heart of a small 250th-anniversary exhibition examining how diplomatic gifts were used by both sides of the conflict to try to win favour with Native Americans.
  Commissioned by the American revolutionaries in 1777 as a diplomatic gift to the Wabanaki Confederacy, the medal later pass
  
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• Planning application for Euston station’s redevelopment expected in spring 2027

  03-07-2026 10:04 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first planning application for the redevelopment above Euston station is expected to be submitted next spring, as a new £24 billion property partnership officially gets underway.
  Euston station site Oct 2021 (c) ianVisits
  Lendlease and The Crown Estate have completed their previously announced agreement to create the Impact Partnership Joint Venture, which will oversee the redevelopment of several major urban regeneration sites across the UK. As previously announced, The Crown Estate a
  
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• The London Buzz – 2nd July 2026

  02-07-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Old London – Oxford Circus
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A developer building homes for Enfield Council at Meridian Water has had a multibillion-pound lawsuit filed against it. Enfield Dispatch
  The future funding of Clapham Common Clapham Society
  Deputy prime minister David Lammy has come out against plans for a 24-hour adult gaming centre on Blackstock Road, in the latest twist in a fight that has united residents on the Hackney–Haringey border. Hackney Citizen
  Rotherham-based
  
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• Only Fools and Horses tribute in new South Acton station roundel

  02-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A tube roundel that says “you plonker” amongst many other things has appeared at South Acton station on the London Overground’s Mildmay line.It’s an artwork,  created through a series of community workshops led by local artist Maud Milton and her team at Artyface and references local cultural landmarks.
  And the “plonker” in the rounder comes from Only Fools and Horses, which, while set in Peckham, used the nearby Harlech Tower for the opening credits and
  
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