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• ZTE 4MIX Distributed Cloud Solution Builds 5G-Ready Cloud Infrastructure

  15-11-2018 17:06
  Cloudified reconstruction of telecommunications networks is already the consensus of global operators. Virtualization technology brings many advantages such as cost reduction, flexible scale-in/out. However, with the advent of 5G, new challenges and problems are constantly emerging.
  5G has three major application scenarios: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), focusing on 4K/8K HD video, VR/AR and other high-bandwidth services, requiring a transmission rate 10 times faster than 4G; High Reliability
  
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• Tickets Alert: Animal Dissection Live!

  13-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Trigger warnings and squeamish alerts…
  Sometimes there’s a chance to see or experience something you probably never thought you would want to – and in April, the dissection of a dead lion will take place in public.
  The original Golden Syrup logo is a dead lion surrounded by bees
  Hosted at the Royal Institution, the lion, which died of old age and was then donated to science, will be dissected to demonstrate how animal biology works. Medical and veterinary students will be used
  
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• The City of London adds its 114th Livery Company — and it’s for HR

  13-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The City of London’s list of ancient and modern Livery companies has got a bit longer, as the Court of Aldermen has approved a new applicant.
  The Aldermen’s Court Room (c) ianVisits
  The City of London’s Livery Companies trace their origins to medieval guilds, acting as both regulators of their trades and, in the centuries before the modern welfare state, as social care services.
  Some are ancient, with origins in the earliest trades, such as ironmongery, swordmaking, brewing bee
  
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• We’ll Meet Again – in the Museum: Dame Vera Lynn’s letters to be displayed at IWM

  13-02-2026 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Some of the archive belonging to the “Forces’ Sweetheart”, Dame Vera Lynn, will go on display at the Imperial War Museum this Spring after it was donated to the museum by Dame Vera’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones.
  Some of the archive (c) IWM
  The Imperial War Museums will preserve the personal archive of the woman whose voice promised, “We’ll meet again,” to a generation living through war.
  Born Vera Margaret Welch in East Ham in 1917, Lynn became known
  
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• Shop windows tell the story of London’s revolutionary illustrated newspapers

  13-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A corner shop in central London has recently been turned into an exhibition space, and is currently exploring the history of 19th-century printers who worked in the area.Printing on the Strand in the 18th century was a major hub of London’s popular print culture, characterised by vibrant publishing activity that wasn’t constrained by rules affecting printers within the City of London.
  Key sites included Bear Yard, near present-day King’s College London, which hosted significant
  
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• Amersham’s fairground organ museum is starting to offer tours

  12-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The charming Amersham fairground organ museum, which is usually open a few Sundays per year, has now started offering guided tours.The occasional open days are more a chance to sit and listen to the old fair organs playing their pipes, and have a nice lunch at the same time.
  However, the guided tours, which will take place on Saturdays, will offer a deeper dive into their collection of organs and the music cards that control them.
  The tours last a couple of hours and cost £12.94 per person
  
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• Victorian drinking fountain returns to Princes Circus – but the water’s been turned off

  12-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A Victorian drinking fountain has been restored to its original location following conservation, but it is not fully functional and cannot dispense drinking water.The Princes Circus fountain was installed in 1879 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s 60th year on the throne, but was originally in a different location.
  It used to be a bit further north, on the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Coptic Street. In 2003, it was moved to sit in a fenced-off island space ou
  
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• Ding ding! TfL auctioning off five authentic 1960s Routemasters

  12-02-2026 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you have ever fancied owning an old London bus, Transport for London (TfL) is selling five authentic 1960s AEC Routemaster double-decker buses at auction next month.
  (c) Wilsons Auctions
  Old Routemasters come up for sale occasionally, but not often five at once and all still owned by TfL and were last used on the heritage Route 15 service.
  RM2089 – ALM 89B
  RM2060 – ALM 60B
  RM2071 – ALM 71B
  RM2050 – ALM 50B
  RM652 – WLT 652
  The five buses are currently at West Ham
  
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• Drawing out Freud: The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond the oils

  12-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An exhibition about Lucian Freud, an artist famous for his paintings, is generally not about his paintings, except when it is.The National Portrait Gallery, which holds the Lucian Freud archive, has rummaged through it and put on a display of his less well-known sketches, seeking to show that the artist was more than just an oil painter but also a skilled draughtsman.
  I have to start by confessing a heresy – I am not that keen on the artist’s work.
  He’s rightly lauded as one of
  
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• Pyx and Ceremony: London hosts one of England’s oldest legal rituals

  12-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Earlier this week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, was put on trial in Mansion House.
  In front of England’s oldest judicial officer, the King’s Remembrancer, a jury was sworn in, and the proceedings began — not with impassioned speeches, but with the distribution of very large gold coins.
  Mansion House
  This was the Trial of the Pyx — an ancient ceremony that is still, in every sense, a proper legal process. Held annually, it exists to answer a simple quest
  
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• The fading hopes of Europe’s telcos

  12-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Sector companies are struggling to win Brussels’ backing for consolidation
  
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• Southbank’s skate undercroft turns 50 with a new exhibition celebrating its concrete legacy

  11-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  People have been skating in the Southbank’s undercroft for the past 50 years, and an exhibition is opening this spring to celebrate 50 years of kickflipping around the space.
  Undercroft Skate Space, 1978 © Tim Leighton Boyce_Jim Slater, Southbank. Images courtesy The Read and Destroy Archive.
  Widely regarded as the birthplace of British skateboarding, the Undercroft Skate Space emerged almost by accident. When the Queen Elizabeth Hall was built in the 1960s, the area beneath was left
  
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• Passenger numbers surge, but the railways still can’t fill the revenue gap

  11-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Rail travel continues to recover from the effects of the pandemic, with an 8% increase in the number of journeys over the past year to reach 467 million journeys in the July to September 2025 quarter, according to figures from the rail regulator, the ORR.
  Liverpool Street station
  However, journeys are also getting shorter, as while the number of trips rose by 8%, the total mileage travelled by all those passengers only rose by 6%. So, while overall revenue also rose by the same 6% in the quarter
  
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• Tickets Alert: Trooping the Colour 2026 tickets ballot now open

  11-02-2026 14:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Trooping the Colour is a big military parade that marks the King’s official birthday in June, and the ballot for tickets to be in the audience is now open.
  Trooping the Colour 2018
  It’s one of those genuine once-in-a-lifetime events to attend, even if the pomp and ceremony isn’t your sort of thing, because it’s a memory you’ll treasure and trigger many envious looks from friends when you tell them you’ve been in the audience for the Trooping the Colour.
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• Visiting the Household Cavalry Museum

  11-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you’re a museum in the centre of London and hoping for lots of passing trade, having a great big statue in front of your entrance must be quite annoying.
  That’s the fate of the Household Cavalry Museum, which sits in the Whitehall building made famous by videos of tourists being shouted at for standing far too close to the horses, but with its entrance around the other side and a statue in front of it.But it’s more than just a museum, because you get to peer into the working
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Pat Hickson Garden, Southwark, SE16

  11-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a corner park that was once houses, then a plain park, but owes its current appearance to a tunnel dug deep under South London.The tunnel carries electricity, and itself is a result of the huge power failure that plunged most of South London into darkness in August 2003. A later review recommended that Network Rail should improve the security of its own supplies in south London, and the result is a tunnel running from the National Grid disconnector at New Cross National Grid Substation t
  
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• Controversial Liverpool Street station redevelopment gets planning approval

  10-02-2026 17:46 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The controversial plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station have been given the go-ahead by the City of London.
  (c) Network Rail / ACME
  Supporters say the scheme is intended to deliver a fully accessible, modernised railway station capable of handling dramatic growth in passenger numbers. The plans include a larger concourse, step-free access to every mainline and Underground platform, and a substantial expansion of passenger facilities such as lifts, escalators, ticket gates and toilets.
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• The “Hogwarts Express” will be at the Epping Ongar Railway through April

  10-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A steam train featuring in the upcoming Harry Potter television series is scheduled to visit the Epping Ongar Railway this spring, including the Easter weekend.
  Wightwick Hall photo by Louisa Richards / Bucks Railway Centre
  The nearly 80-year old steam locomotive 6989 ‘Wightwick Hall’ will star as the Hogwarts Express in the TV series. Repainted into red livery for its television role, the locomotive is expected to operate steam-hauled services along the Epping Ongar Railway thr
  
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• Queer Britain gets a refresh but makes a small museum feel even smaller

  10-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The museum devoted to the alphabet soup of sexualities has had a revamp of its displays and turned a small museum into a cramped one.
  It’s always been a small space, with one main room and a second, smaller temporary exhibition space, but they’ve added two more glass cases in the middle of the main room, turning a wide rectangle into a corridor.
  Opening with a temporary display marking 40 years of the BFI Flare film festival, the main space is a selection of nuggets from various LGBT
  
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• BT replaces Openreach boss in latest top-level reshuffle

  10-02-2026 09:12 via ft.com
  Deputy chief Katie Milligan must now decide whether to expand fibre coverage to millions more homes
  
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• Several weekend closures of Liverpool Street station through March

  09-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Passengers are being warned that several weekend closures of London Liverpool Street station will take place in March due to Network Rail engineering works.
  Liverpool Street station during the Christmas 2025 closure (c) ianVisits
  This work will affect weekend passengers on Greater Anglia, some c2c services, London Overground’s Weaver line and some Elizabeth line services.
  During the closures, Network Rail will be carrying out track renewals near Ilford station and Gidea Park.
  There will al
  
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• Seahorses, seals and sharks spotted in Thames as conservation boosts Thames habitats

  09-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Conservation efforts along the 153 miles of the River Thames have delivered mixed results for wildlife, according to a new report that finds improvements in some species and habitats alongside emerging threats from climate change and pollution.
  Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
  Researchers recorded increases in several wading bird species, marine mammals and restored natural habitats, including intertidal areas that act as nurseries for many fish. The river continues to support a surprising r
  
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• A medieval Persian allegory takes flight in a London gallery

  09-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A King’s Cross gallery is currently alive with birdsong, reimagining the 12th-century Persian poem The Conference of the Birds as a gently immersive exhibition.The poem itself is an allegory: a gathering of birds set out on a spiritual quest, each one embodying a particular human flaw or attachment. Passing through seven symbolic valleys, they face trials and moments of revelation, before realising that the divine presence they seek lies within themselves.
  That sense of pilgrimage carries
  
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• Warning of four day closure on parts of the Metropolitan and Chiltern Railway next week

  09-02-2026 11:32 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s going to be a four-day closure of part of the Metropolitan line and Chiltern Railways next week, affecting services north of Harrow on the Hill.
  Affected area on TfL map
  The closure is due to London Underground signalling works between Harrow on the Hill and Amersham, and it means no trains on either the tube or the mainline can run along the line.
  From Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd February, there will be no service on the Metropolitan line between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham,
  
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• TfL testing a new modular design bus shelter for London

  09-02-2026 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new design of sheltered bus stop could be coming to a street near you, as Transport for London (TfL) is starting tests of the new design.
  New bus shelter on Blackfriars Road near Southwark tube station (c) TfL
  Superficially, it doesn’t look radically different, but TfL says the new design incorporates better seating, lighting, and, in places, CCTV for the police – and is also easier to install at bus stops.
  Diamond Geezer has a more in-depth review.
  The trial of the first 27 bus sh
  
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• London’s Alleys: Alderman Stairs, Wapping, E1

  09-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Tucked away just east of the Tower of London, a narrow alley slips quietly between buildings and down towards the Thames. Today it’s easy to miss, but Alderman Stairs has been guiding people to and from the river for centuries.The story of this corner of London runs deep. The roots of settlement here stretch back to the 10th century, when King Edgar granted 13 acres of riverside land to 13 knights (yes, an acre per knight), with permission to use it for trading along the river. By 1125, th
  
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• ‘Hermès orange’ iPhone sparks Apple comeback in China 

  07-02-2026 08:00 via ft.com
  Vivid redesign and social media buzz lure Chinese buyers back after a prolonged slump
  
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• Photos from NASA’s manned space missions go on display in London

  06-02-2026 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For just three days, visitors will be able to relive the thrilling dawn of the space age, stepping into the era when humanity first dared to leave Earth behind.
  Buzz Aldrin is seen clinging to the spacecraft during his spacewalk as he orbits Earth at over 17,000mph on Gemini 12 – 13th November 1966. Image Credit: NASA / ASU / Andy Saunders
  All because an exhibition of newly restored photographs from NASA’s Mercury and Gemini missions goes on display, revealing the moment when our blu
  
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• Japan’s KDDI finds up to $1.5bn in fictitious revenues

  06-02-2026 15:32 via ft.com
  Telecoms group postpones third-quarter results amid probe into ‘suspicions regarding inappropriate transactions’
  
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• Discount sale on tickets to see I’m Sorry, Prime Minister

  06-02-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Fans of the 1980s political satire, Yes Minister, will probably know there’s a stage version at the moment – but not that there’s a sale on tickets.
  From Yes Minister co-writer Jonathan Lynn comes I’m Sorry, Prime Minister – the final act between Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey.Jim Hacker (Griff Rhys Jones) is back — older, no wiser, and still gloriously out of his depth. Dreaming of a peaceful retirement at Hacker College, Oxford, Jim instead collides with a very
  
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