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• Intel and Mobileye talk up new fleet for Level 4 autonomous driving

  10-08-2017 11:22
  To celebrate the completion of the completion of Intel’s tender offer for outstanding ordinary shares of Mobileye, the pair have announced a new initiative to build a fleet of 100 autonomous vehicles.
  The fleet itself will be Level Four on the SAE International scale of autonomous driving, which is almost as good as it gets. The first cars will hit the road by the end of the year, testing throughout the US, Europe and Israel, using multiple car brands and vehicle types.
  When it comes to th
  
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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
  New powers s
  
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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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• The London Buzz – 8th June 2026

  08-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Bridge to Cannon Street station circa 1875
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Man denies causing nuisance by climbing Big Ben BBC News
  TfL must use new regulatory powers granted by the government to crack down on “nuisance” e-bike parking, City Hall Labour have said. South London
  The Met Police have backed down on plans to force out dozens of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) previously tasked with enforcing red route restrictions on roads
  
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• Fancy a scoop of… what? London’s strangest ice cream shop returns

  08-06-2026 17:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of London’s more unusual summer pop-ups has returned, as Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project opens for its fifth year. The annual venture takes familiar supermarket and pantry staples and turns them into ice cream and sorbet flavours – with varying degrees of weirdness and success.Previous years have featured everything from Heinz Baked Beans and Branston Piccalilli to Bisto Gravy, alongside slightly less challenging options such as Sun-Pat Peanut Butter, McVitie’s Mil
  
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• After-work art: National Gallery opens until 7pm throughout summer

  08-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The National Gallery is extending its opening hours and will open late every evening for a couple of months this summer.The gallery, which has seen its visitor numbers struggling to recover to pre-pandemic levels says that the late opening initiative responds directly to audience demand for more flexible visiting hours, particularly for Londoners and commuters who are unable to visit during traditional daytime opening hours.
  National Gallery Summertime also aims to attract first-time visitors lo
  
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• Bouygues Telecom consortium agrees to buy Patrick Drahi’s SFR for €20.35bn

  07-06-2026 00:16 via ft.com
  Bid from group including Orange and Free-Iliad faces showdown with antitrust regulators in Paris and Brussels
  
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• Five-day bus strike to disrupt seven East London routes next week

  06-06-2026 09:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be a five day long bus strike in London next week, affecting seven bus routes across East London.The strikes are planned on bus routes operated by Stagecoach from Bow Bus Garage, and Transport for London (TfL) says that some services will be severely delayed and buses may be cancelled.
  According to Unite the Union, over 300 bus drivers will be on strike in a dispute over long shifts without breaks, insufficient time between shifts, and increased weekend work.
  These routes are affected
  
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• Giant Joseph Paxton bust restored to its original Crystal Palace location

  05-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A monumental bust of Sir Joseph Paxton, the Victorian designer behind both the Crystal Palace and the park that bears its name, has been returned to its original position on the Italian Terraces as part of the ongoing restoration of Crystal Palace Park.
  (c) Crystal Palace Park Trust
  The oversized stone sculpture, which had stood for many years on a rather unappealing brick plinth near the sports ground, has now been installed on a newly constructed plinth overlooking the landscape Paxton himself
  
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• First images unveiled of future Thamesmead DLR station

  05-06-2026 13:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first images of the proposed new DLR stations for the Thamesmead extension have been released as part of the final consultation on the plans.
  Proposed extension route (c) TfL
  For the extension, a new station will be built at Beckton Riverside, with two tunnels under the River Thames linking to another new station at Thamesmead.  Previous consultations on the plans came, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly in favour of a rail link, and this final stage is looking at more detailed plans for th
  
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• One of the world’s rarest Bibles goes on display at St Paul’s Cathedral

  05-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One of the great treasures of the English language is going on display for the first time, offering a rare chance to see a book that was once hunted down and burned as heresy.The book is one of only three surviving copies of the 1526 Tyndale New Testament, a translation so controversial that King Henry VIII’s agents spent years trying to suppress it and track down its creator across Europe.
  Its significance is difficult to overstate.
  Not only did it help fuel the religious upheavals that t
  
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• First of 10 new Elizabeth line trains rolls off Derby production line

  05-06-2026 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of ten additional Elizabeth line trains has rolled off the production line in Derby and is now undergoing testing ahead of entering passenger service later this year.
  Unit 345071 testing at Derby Litchurch Lane Works (c) Alstom
  Built by Alstom at its Litchurch Lane Works, the nine-carriage train has completed assembly and is now running on the factory’s test track for final checks before moving to London for a programme of trials on the national rail network and the Elizabeth lin
  
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• A pride of painted lions has arrived in London

  05-06-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander around central London over the next few weeks, you might spy some brightly coloured lions.They’re the latest in the genre of “get artists to paint a sculpture and sell it for charity”, and put them on display in public places for a walking trail.
  And, topically, they’re football-themed, as each lion/lioness is resting a paw on a football.
  The trail runs until 10th August and stretches across Westminster and Victoria. Two of the lions seemed to be missing, un
  
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• Advantage passengers as Barons Court tube station reopens all four platforms

  05-06-2026 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Good news for Barons Court tube station users as its long-running repair works are set to take a brief break, allowing trains to serve all four platforms again for a couple of weeks.Passengers have been unable to use the eastbound platforms since mid-January, after what started as a routine repair project turned into a longer rally when engineers uncovered additional structural problems. The restoration of the eastbound platform’s worn edges and corroded staircase canopy columns is now nea
  
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• Council seizes 2,500 obstructive rental e-bikes from borough streets

  05-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  More than 2,500 abandoned and obstructively parked rental e-bikes have been removed from the streets of Kensington and Chelsea since the council launched a dedicated enforcement operation at the start of 2025.
  K&C Council’s bike pound
  The council says that enforcement activity has intensified this year, with their staff seizing more than 1,200 e-bikes during the first five months of 2026 alone. That follows the removal of a further 1,315 bikes during 2025, bringing the total number sei
  
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• The London Buzz – 3rd June 2026

  03-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Cheapside looking east
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Calls for City Hall to do more to incentivise housebuilding in London as slowdown continues Enfield Dispatch
  Greenwich Council will finally introduce an initial 29 parking bays for Lime bikes – and is set to sign an agreement so Forest bike users will have to use them too. Greenwich Wire
  A derelict garage site in Southall is set to be transformed into four family homes under plans announced by Ea
  
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• New photos show HS2’s first tunnel safety door being installed

  03-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first safety-critical cross-passage door has been installed inside HS2’s 10-mile-long Chiltern Tunnel, as the railway progresses from a tunnelling site into a working railway.
  Cross-passage door test-installation within the Chiltern Tunnel (c) HS2
  A total of 300 cross-passage doors will eventually be installed in HS2’s tunnels, linking the northbound and southbound bores and providing emergency access routes between them. The 60kg doors are designed to withstand the pressure chan
  
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• Tickets Alert: Late openings at the Royal Society’s annual science exhibition

  03-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Royal Society is opening its London building to the public for a few days for its annual summer science exhibition, and they’re having a couple of late openings as well.The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Royal Society, is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world, having been founded in 1660.
  Now housed in a grand building off The Mall, they hold public talks, but also their annual science exhibition.
  This yea
  
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• Jack White: These thoughts may disappear

  03-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The former guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo the White Stripes has been turning his hand to making art, and is now filling a London gallery with his works.White describes his work as ‘hardware store art’, a synthesis of carpentry, upholstery, assemblage and reappropriation using materials ranging from resins, paints and epoxies to utilitarian materials and found objects.
  As an exhibition, it’s a mix of sculptures, paintings and photography.
  It opens weakly though, whi
  
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• Royal Observatory offering less than half-price tickets in June

  03-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is slashing the cost of a visit this month, with heavily discounted entry available every Tuesday in June.
  Greenwich Royal Observatory (c) ianVisits
  Usually, tickets to the hilltop attraction cost £24 for adults and £12 for children, but on Tuesdays in June, everyone can visit for a flat rate of £10 per person.
  Perched above Greenwich Park, the Royal Observatory is one of London’s most significant scientific landmarks. It is the home of
  
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• Quentin Blake’s £12.5 million museum of illustrations opens its doors

  03-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London has a new museum, and it’s also the largest of its kind in the world devoted entirely to hand-drawn illustrations.Founded by prolific artist Sir Quentin Blake, it’s actually the second home for the museum after its temporary existence as the House of Illustration in King’s Cross. However, when a former industrial building that’s been empty since the 1950s came up for grabs, they saw the opportunity to create a much larger permanent collection in London.
  Due to open
  
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• The London Buzz – 2nd June 2026

  02-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  (The) Strand
  A homeless man who lived around the side of Sainsburys Putney for years has died from heatstroke in the heatwave Putney News
  How Lime removed restrictions to let Deliveroo riders go at full speed through London’s parks London Centric
  The row over the fate of three park cafes on Hampstead Heath could see a decision within days. Kilburn Times
  Work is underway on more than 650 new homes as part of Barking Riverside’s expanding neighbourho
  
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• Rooftop bar overlooking Parliament reopens for the summer

  02-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A rooftop bar in the centre of London with views across to the Houses of Parliament has reopened for the summer.
  (c) Westminster Rooftop Terrace Bar
  The rooftop bar is on top of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the grand terracotta and brick building on the corner of Parliament Square between the Supreme Court and the Treasury. Sitting up top, it offers pretty much uninterrupted views across to Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
  Entry is £15 per person and includes a welcome gl
  
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• Tallest, biggest, blandest? Future City skyscraper renamed to ‘One London’

  02-06-2026 15:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  What will eventually become the City of London’s tallest building has changed its name and, in doing so, doubtless caused perpetual headscratching about its address.
  1 Undershaft in the city cluster (c) Dbox
  What was to be called 1 Understaft, for the simple reason that is its address, is now to be known as One London – because that’s the sort of branding that marketing people think is a good idea.
  It also means that the address will be more complicated as One London, 1 Undersh
  
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