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• Verizon customers in Dallas have the #1 Rated Network

  26-07-2017 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  andnbsp;Verizon takes great pride in providing network reliability for its customers looking to call, post, stream and text. In 2016, Verizon invested more than $951 millionin its network in the Lone Star State, ensuring its customers have the best possible experience, no matter whether they're responding to local emergencies, solving for business challenges or simply connecting with loved ones.Click here for more.
  
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• Bedford rail crash disruption set to last most of the week

  21-06-2026 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Following Friday’s serious rail accident at Bedford, passengers are being warned that services on the Midlands Main Line will be disrupted for much of the week.
  Due to the accident, there will be no Thameslink services north of Luton and no East Midlands Railway (EMR) services south of Bedford for most of this week, with a limited rail-replacement bus service operating between Luton and Bedford.
  As much as possible, rail passengers are being asked to avoid travelling through the affected a
  
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• UK telecoms groups introduce ‘kill switch’ to cut phone theft from stores

  21-06-2026 07:21 via ft.com
  Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree’s move comes after Apple and Samsung resisted calls to adopt broader measures
  
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• Outlander costumes to go on display in free London exhibition

  19-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Fans of the fantasy history TV show Outlander are in for a treat as costumes and props from the show will go on display in central London next month.Based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling books, “Outlander” follows Claire Fraser, a former WWII nurse who travels through a mysterious stone circle to 18th-century Scotland, where she falls in love with Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. Claire and Jamie have transported audiences from the rugged Scottish Highlands to the streets of Pari
  
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• Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani files for blockbuster Jio float

  19-06-2026 15:10 via ft.com
  Listing of Reliance Industries’ telecoms business expected to be India’s largest ever
  
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• The summer sale theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct

  19-06-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct.
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Therein do men from children nothing differ
  From £7 – SAVE UP TO 38%
   The Enormous Crocodile – Lyric Hammersmith
  Opens 29th July 2026
  For my lunch today I would like… a nice juicy little child!
  From £10 – SAVE UP TO 47%
   The Tiger Who Came to Tea
  The Tiger Who Came to Tea is back for seconds!
  From £13 – SAVE UP TO 38%
   Relics
  
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• Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani lines up blockbuster Jio float

  19-06-2026 13:24 via ft.com
  Listing of Reliance Industries’ telecoms business expected to be India’s largest ever
  
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• TfL urged to crack down on passengers blasting music on trains and buses

  19-06-2026 12:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The nuisance of people playing music on trains could face increased enforcement, as the Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, agreed to look at what could be done.TfL’s bylaws already prohibit playing music or streaming content aloud on the network without permission, but enforcement is effectively left to fellow passengers to ask people to stop. As a result, most of us have probably faced the choice between being the grumpy person who asks someone to plug their headphones in or looking at the
  
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• Historic first as pelican chicks hatch in St James’s Park

  19-06-2026 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  St James Park in central London is famous for its resident pelicans, but none have been born there — until now, that is.
  The four pelican chicks are about a month old and are currently being protected in a part of the park that is not accessible to visitors as they become established. They are expected to take to the water at around nine to 12 weeks old, to join the older pelicans. Until then, the chicks are highly vulnerable, and the Royal Parks is asking visitors to avoid disturbing them
  
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• SpaceX warns EU satellite plan risks undermining connectivity in Ukraine

  19-06-2026 00:00 via ft.com
  Elon Musk’s group hits out at proposal by bloc to reserve part of spectrum band for European operators
  
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• The London Buzz – 18th June 2026

  18-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  The view from St Bride’s church tower
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Anger among Underhill residents over Barnet Council’s imposition of parking charges outside a parade of shops in Mays Lane is said to be a likely reason why parking signs have been obliterated with black paint. Barnet Society
  The leader of Enfield Council has decided to withdraw the civic centre’s legal defence against a judicial review case brought by campaigners wanti
  
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• Jewish Museum London awarded £1 million grant while it looks for a new home

  18-06-2026 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Jewish Museum London, which closed in 2023, has been given a £1 million grant to support its education and outreach work while it searches for a new permanent home, the government has announced.
  (c) Jewish Museum London
  The funding was unveiled by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy during a visit to the launch of Two Rooms, the museum’s new temporary exhibition space at JW3 in north London.
  The museum closed in July 2023 after its income plunged following the pandemic, and it chose to
  
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• Pontoon Dock DLR upgrade delayed by a few months

  18-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to upgrade Pontoon Dock DLR station has been pushed back by a few months while detailed design work and costs are still being estimated.
  The station needs upgrades to handle projected passenger demand as new housing is built nearby, but the current design can’t accommodate it. The upgrade will add six new escalators to reduce the load on the existing lifts, along with a new mezzanine level and street level improvements.
  The station today (c) ianVisits
  Upgraded station plans (c) Weston
  
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• Stranger Things meets South Bank in Anish Kapoor’s new exhibition

  18-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Stranger Things seems to have broken into London as monumentally ugly sculptures of blood and gore are filling the Hayward Gallery at the moment.This is actually the new Anish Kapoor exhibition, and features some of his latest works dripping in red, as well as stalwarts of his mirror work, and more controversially, his Vantablack works. A giant squashed balloon fills the opening gallery, which is technically impressive and contrasts nicely with the concrete stairs, but candidly, it’s a bal
  
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• London Museum confirms November opening date for its new Smithfield home

  18-06-2026 11:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The London Museum (formerly the Museum of London) has confirmed its delayed reopening date will be later this year, on 28th November 2026.
  The London Museum (c) Secchi Smith
  The former Museum of London closed in December 2022, and its replacement site near Farringdon station was due to open in 2024. That was later pushed back to early 2026, and the opening date has been confirmed as 28th November 2026.
  The original £337 million budget to convert the two old market buildings into the new mu
  
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• London Underground roundel unveiled on Japan’s Tokyo Metro

  18-06-2026 10:52 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The familiar London Underground roundel has appeared deep beneath Tokyo’s streets, after Transport for London (TfL) donated a specially designed roundel to mark the approaching centenary of Japan’s first subway.
  Sir Sadiq Khan and Akihiro Kosaka (c) Tokyo Metro
  The London-style roundel was unveiled on platform 2 of Ueno Station on Tokyo’s Ginza Line during a ceremony attended by London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, Tokyo Metro President Akihiro Kosaka, and TfL Commissioner Andy Lord.
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• Winning design chosen for Clapham railway bridge makeover

  18-06-2026 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway bridge next to Clapham High Street and Clapham North stations is to get a makeover following an architectural competition to select a design.
  (C) Makower Architects
  The design by Makower Architects reclads the railway bridge with a new metal skin bearing the town name, and also adds that long-standing stalwart of railways – a clock tower.
  The judges praised the team’s vision for the railway bridge and clock tower, recognising its potential to create a distinctive gateway
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Sam Philp Recreation Ground, Hayes, UB3

  18-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a pocket park next to the M4, north of Heathrow Airport, with lots of trees planted a couple of decades ago to mitigate the noise from its noisy neighbours.
  It also lost the Frogs Ditch.As a plot of green, it’s always been fields and never built on. As Hayes town centre slowly expanded after the arrival of the railways, it took an incredibly long time to reach the site of the pocket park today.
  Even in the late 1930s, most of the area was still fields, and was part of Dawley Manor
  
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• Zip wire across Twickenham stadium to raise funds for children’s charity

  17-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a chance to ride a zip wire across the top of the home of English Rugby – the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham.
  Skylarks Stadium Zipwire Adventure
  It’s a fundraising event for the local Skylarks charity, which provides a wide range of activities and therapies for children with additional needs, while also supporting their siblings and whole families.
  The zip wire will let you rush across the top of the stadium for around 150 metres – if you can hit the £300 per
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of the 350-year-old Stationers’ Hall

  17-06-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hidden away around the corner from St Paul’s Cathedral is Stationers’ Hall, one of the largest and most opulent of the City of London’s livery halls, and they hold public tours.In addition to tours for groups, it’s also one of only two* Livery Halls in London that offer tours to the general public.
  Inside, there are lots of rich carpets and paintings, and a series of large meeting rooms that once served to manage the printing monopolies. The main star of the hall is,
  
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• Ericsson chief to step down after stabilising scandal-hit group

  16-06-2026 14:10 via ft.com
  Börje Ekholm admitted possible payments by company to Isis in 2022 but then improved performance
  
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• The London Buzz – 15th June 2026

  15-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Euston station
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Multi-millionaire banker with royal connections arrested in hunt for notorious ‘Putney Pusher’ LBC
  Street drinkers could face £100 fines in Camden after the council approved new powers to crack down on alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour in the borough. Fitzrovia News
  Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant heads to court to challenge eviction  Restaurant
  A homeowner in Collier Row ha
  
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• Gandhi autograph and suffragette protests among treasures in new London archive

  15-06-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London has gained a free history archive after more than 200 years of records, photographs, films and artefacts were uncovered and catalogued during the restoration of Union Chapel’s Sunday School building.
  Friends archive work (c) Union Chapel
  The new Sunday School Stories archive spans the period from 1799 to the present day and reveals the social, political and cultural history of both Union Chapel and London itself.
  The collection is now available online, with in-person access also off
  
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• Tower of London doubles price of late-night Ceremony of the Keys

  15-06-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Tower of London has doubled the cost of attending the late-night Ceremony of the Keys, from cheap to still very affordable.The Ceremony of the Keys is the formal locking up of the tower, and it takes place every single evening at 10pm. Although it’s a private event inside the Tower, each evening a small group of people are allowed to watch. And you can apply to be in that group.
  Attending the ceremony used to be free of charge, but you also had to write in for tickets and usually wait
  
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• Exhibition celebrates the women who made a living painting dogs

  15-06-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At a time when women could struggle to carve out a career as an artist, there was a niche they excelled at – painting dogs. And to show off that niche, an exhibition has opened, displaying over 120 doggy artworks painted by women.Appropriately, it’s at the Royal Kennel Club, and almost emphasising how normalised the idea of women painting dogs was, about half the club’s art collection was painted by women. That is compared to a tiny fraction of historic female artists in most a
  
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• Lumo to launch Starlink based Wi-Fi on East Coast trains this autumn

  15-06-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers travelling on Lumo’s services are set to benefit from improved onboard internet connections, as the rail operator prepares to introduce Starlink satellite technology across its fleet this autumn.
  (c) Lumo
  The upgrade will be provided on Lumo’s trains running along the  East Coast Main Line between London and Scotland.
  Unlike traditional onboard Wi-Fi systems, which rely on mobile phone networks and trackside infrastructure, Starlink uses a network of low Earth orbit s
  
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• Government strips Epping Forest Council of major planning powers

  15-06-2026 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Epping Forest District Council has joined a very small list of councils that have lost their power to determine major planning applications after exceeding the government’s threshold for planning decisions overturned on appeal.Under planning rules, developers can appeal if they believe a council has wrongly refused an application. To discourage councils from rejecting schemes without sound planning grounds, the government monitors how many refusals are later overturned.
  Councils are expect
  
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• London’s Alleys: Bride Court, City of London, EC4

  15-06-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This covered late Victorian alley sits next to what was once the heart of England’s noisy and boisterous newspaper trade, but today is a rather quieter space.The alley sits on the southwestern corner of the large junction where Fleet Street, Farringdon Street, New Bridge Street and Ludgate Hill meet. The corner plot was once the site of the Abbot of Winchcombe’s Inn, and later the Bishop of St David also built an inn next door.
  However, the alley quickly appeared as the area began to
  
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• SFR’s €20bn break-up can win watchdog approval, says Bouygues

  15-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Lead bidder for French telecoms operator hopes EU’s competitive drive will offset regulatory concerns about merger
  
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• The London Buzz – 12th June 2026

  12-06-2026 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Piccadilly
  Today’s London news round-up:
  More than 70 people have been evacuated from their homes after a huge fire ripped through a nearby warehouse. Metro
  A “living legend” DJ who has played every Sunday night at a Hornchurch pub for the past 27 years has decided to stop. Romford Recorder
  A north London cat who has helped to save countless lives has been named blood donor of the year. Ham and High
  Dozens of protesters expressing support for Palestine Action have been arrested
  
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