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• Intel, Lenovo and Google withdraw from CES due to Omicron surge

  24-12-2021 13:16
  
  More major tech players have joined the list of firms pulling out or limiting their presence at Las Vegas tech mega-show CES.
  Intel said in a statement on its site that it will be limiting its presence at the show: “The health and safety of Intel employees, partners and customers is always a top priority. After consulting with health officials and in the spirit of Intel’s safety policy, Intel’s plans for CES will move to a digital-first live experience, with minimal on-site sta
  
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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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• Railway workers pull a 25-tonne steam train by hand for charity

  02-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When a steam locomotive runs out of steam, the traditional solution is to light the fire. The less traditional solution is to attach sixteen determined railway workers and ask them to do the pulling instead.That’s exactly what happened at Didcot Railway Centre, where a team of employees from Alstom’s Reading depot took on an unusual charity challenge to see how far they could haul a 25-tonne steam locomotive using nothing but muscle power.
  And rather than simply moving the engine onc
  
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• Barking workhouse’s pediment plaque restored and goes on display

  02-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A moss-covered stone slab that sat for decades in a back garden has been restored and installed in a public location close to where it once stood.This is the header plaque that once stood at the top of the Barking Workhouse, built in 1788 to replace older workhouses under the Barking Workhouse Act, which had transferred responsibility from the parish to ‘Directors of the Poor’.
  The Barking workhouse was one of the largest in Essex, and probably the grandest with its Neo-Palladian fro
  
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• Smithfield and Billingsgate relocation plans move ahead with Albert Island consultation

  02-07-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans are moving forward for the £220 million redevelopment of Albert Island in the Royal Docks, paving the way for the relocation of London’s wholesale Smithfield and Billingsgate markets to the site in 2029.
  Potential site (c) City of London
  Albert Island has been selected as the preferred location for the new co-located wholesale markets, but the land is owned by the Greater London Authority (GLA), so they are leading the initial development work.
  Planning permission already exist
  
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• Fisher’s Folly: The Tudor manor wall that survives in a Tesco backyard

  02-07-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A locked door at a Liverpool Street Tesco conceals one of London’s most remarkable Tudor survivals – the last substantial remains of Jasper Fisher’s once-famous mansion, better known as Fisher’s Folly.Jasper Fisher was a fast-rising star in the Tudor household, but maybe someone who later also overextended himself in building his grand house.
  Probably born in Great Packington, Warwickshire, around 1528, Jasper Fisher first appears in the records in 1549, when he seems to
  
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• A 53 foot long snake has arrived at London Zoo

  02-07-2026 01:05 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A 53 foot long snake has arrived at London Zoo, but ophidiophobics need not worry, as it’s a work of art.
  (c) ZSL
  The mosaic designed by British artist Linder has been unveiled as part of the Zoological Society of London’s 200th anniversary celebrations. The artwork, titled Sirona, pays tribute to pioneering zoologist Joan Beauchamp Procter, whose groundbreaking work transformed reptile care and public understanding of reptiles during the early 20th century.
  Constructed from around o
  
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• Bayeux Tapestry ticket frenzy sparks nine-hour online queue

  01-07-2026 17:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The British Museum has been flooded with people trying to book tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry, with online queuing running into several hours.In echoes of the first release of tickets to museum members, the website struggled with the huge demand to see the tapestry when it makes its historic return to England later this year.
  At one point, almost in an echo of The Queue to see the late Queen, the museum had to pause people joining the queue to see the tapestry, maybe wondering if they could
  
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• Duke of York’s Theatre to be renamed after Sir Tom Stoppard

  01-07-2026 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London’s west end theatre, the Duke of York’s, is to be renamed the Tom Stoppard Theatre in honour of the late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, creating a permanent memorial to one of Britain’s greatest dramatists.
  The future Tom Stoppard Theatre (c) ATG Entertainment
  The announcement comes less than a year after Stoppard’s death in November 2025 and coincides with the opening night of a new production of Arcadia, one of his best-known plays, which is currently running at the
  
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• Stratford’s abandoned Sphere site could become giant bus-themed food market

  01-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The empty plot of land that had been a possible site of a glowing Sphere could instead be filled with a boxpark-style temporary food venue, with 40 double-decker buses on it.
  (c) Stratford Junction
  After permission for the MSG Sphere was refused in 2023, the empty plot next to Stratford station was put up for sale and bought by the privately owned Hallmark Property Group last year for a reputed £30-£40 million.
  They are now applying for temporary meanwhile permission to use the site
  
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• UK watchdog launches probe into hotly anticipated broadband deal

  01-07-2026 10:04 via ft.com
  Review of Telefónica and Liberty Global’s planned takeover of Netomnia could delay consolidation in fibre broadband sector
  
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• UK watchdog launches in-depth probe into Virgin Media O2 owners’ £2bn deal

  01-07-2026 10:04 via ft.com
  Review of Telefónica and Liberty Global’s planned takeover of Netomnia could delay consolidation in fibre broadband sector
  
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• AI jitters give Indian IPOs a moment to shine

  01-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Two Indian listings this year are expected to raise a combined $7bn
  
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• Satellite TV group Dish files for bankruptcy to cut $9bn debt load

  30-06-2026 23:46 via ft.com
  Parent company EchoStar has surged to $30bn market capitalisation from windfall on SpaceX holding
  
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