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• The London Buzz – 15th April 2025

  15-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A disabled mum has won over £3,500 from Lewisham council after she was split up from her child for 10 months after fleeing her abusive ex-partner. South London Press
  Bexley’s London Cycle Network routes have inaccessible gates News Shopper
  There’s a slight rearrangement of the deck chairs on the good ship Lambeth Labour as the struggling administration attempts to get a grip on the financial crisis facing the borough for the year ahead. Brix
  
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• Altice creditors brace for next showdown with Drahi

  08-05-2025 06:00
  
  Analysts and investors believe restructuring of international business could be more aggressive than French unit
  
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• The London Buzz – 6th May 2025

  06-05-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Dave Hill: Twenty-five years of London Mayors OnLondon
  If you want to use the least used tube station [Roding Valley], from today you’re semi-buggered. Diamond Geezer
  Plans to build 359 flats on the old Siemens factory site next to the Thames Barrier have been withdrawn after five years. Greenwich Wire
  The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has lifted a notice on Croydon council four years after stepping in over the state of the borough’s housing s
  
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• Step-free access arrives at Stoneleigh station as new lifts and footbridge are opened

  06-05-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Stoneleigh station in southwest London has joined the growing list of stations with lifts after a new footbridge was recently opened.It was completed earlier this year and was already in use, but the formal opening, with a blessing from the local vicar, took place a couple of weeks ago.The new footbridge is in fact the third that the station has had. It opened in 1932 on the existing railway with a small footbridge over the railway with steps down to the central platforms.  Following compla
  
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• TalkTalk sheds customers as indebted telecoms group battles altnets

  06-05-2025 14:25
  Sales and profits decline at UK broadband provider as it faces intensifying competition
  
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• From slave plots to suburban lawns: New exhibition explores the politics of gardening

  06-05-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A machine has gone on display in London that was so outlandish when invented nearly 200 years ago that the inventor tested it at night to avoid ridicule from the neighbours.
  That machine is the lawnmower, and it’s on display at the British Library as part of an exhibition on the history of gardening, both domestic and commercial.Gardens historically were mainly a space to grow the sort of foods that didn’t require large fields, and that they were aesthetically pleasing is probably pa
  
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• LNER and Network Rail fix mobile phone signal blackouts at King’s Cross station

  06-05-2025 12:44 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Mobile phone coverage for train passengers using King’s Cross station has improved after bespoke equipment was installed in the two sets of mainline railway tunnels to the north of the station.
  The Gasworks Tunnel is a set of three parallel railway tunnels carrying the East Coast Main Line from London King’s Cross under Regent’s Canal. After a short gap in the open air, the trains dip into the Copenhagen Tunnel under the rising ground at Barnsbury, about a mile north of the sta
  
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• A modernist river runs through it: The story of Embankment tube station’s platform design

  06-05-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you ever pass through Embankment tube station, you might have noticed the distinctive artwork on the platform walls. You might even have noticed that they’re signed by the artist, Robyn Denny and dated 1985. You might not unreasonably assume then that this is their 40th anniversary — but you’d be wrong.
  Which is a bit of a pain if you’re a writer about to write a 40th anniversary article about them.The decision to put artwork in the station dates back to 1981, when Lon
  
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• Eutelsat names new chief as Europe’s Starlink rival seeks to unlock funding

  05-05-2025 19:04
  
  Outgoing CEO confirms company is looking ‘to adjust our governance and shareholder structure’
  
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• Will train WiFi ever work?

  05-05-2025 05:00
  Connections at speed are notoriously bad and a solution is not straightforward
  
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• BT rival Community Fibre posts first profit as other altnets struggle

  05-05-2025 05:00
  Private equity-backed company tipped to mount serious challenge to BT Openreach and Virgin Media O2
  
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• Spanish electricity blackout drives use of Musk’s Starlink

  04-05-2025 06:00
  Widespread outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms
  
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• Spanish blackout drives use of Musk’s Starlink

  04-05-2025 06:00
  
  Widespread electricity outage on the Iberian peninsula exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms
  
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• Octopus and Revolut signal UK mobile market disruption

  04-05-2025 06:00
  Big brands are piling into the telecoms sector by piggybacking on incumbents’ networks
  
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• Octopus and Revolut set sights on UK mobile market disruption

  04-05-2025 06:00
  Brands are piling into the telecoms sector by piggybacking on incumbents’ networks
  
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• The London Buzz – 2nd May 2025

  02-05-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  London’s oldest weightlifting club ‘in limbo’ as second eviction extension granted The Slice
  An Ilford pub which has been shut for seven years after a fire looks set to reopen again. Ilford Recorder
  Two tower blocks will be built on a Catford car park despite concerns from a neighbouring music venue. News Shopper
  Electric bikes and scooters are now available to rent in Northolt and Greenford for the first time, Ealing News
  As Alex Proud prep
  
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• First images of possible step-free upgrade for West Hampstead tube station

  02-05-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Preliminary plans have been shown for what West Hampstead tube station could look like when it is eventually upgraded with step-free access, as part of a wider redevelopment of the area.
  The station is on the Jubilee line and has only a small entrance leading to steps down to an island platform. The entrance is too small for its current passenger numbers, and the station doesn’t have any step-free access. As it’s also very close to West Hampstead’s Overground and Thameslink sta
  
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• From Samurai to Sketches: British Museum celebrates the last master of Ukiyo-e

  02-05-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  200 years ago, a young Japanese man destined to become a Samurai put down the sword and picked up a paint brush, and in doing so was to become the last master of the great Ukiyo-e tradition of woodblock prints.
  Now, an exhibition of those images has opened at the British Museum.Utagawa Hiroshige was born in 1797 and, at about 14, chose to become an artist. Although like others, he focused on traditional images of female beauties, sumo wrestlers, and simple landscapes, Hiroshige’s work is n
  
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• London ambulance that survived the WWII blitz could return to the road again

  02-05-2025 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The only wartime ambulance known to have survived the Blitz could return to the road again as the London Ambulance Service is launching a restoration campaign.
  (c) London Ambulance Charity
  The remarkable Clements Talbot ambulance, which is made of wood and steel, served Londoners during the WWII blitz. Known by its registration number, BXH809 was based in Lambeth, and served throughout the Second World War. Since its retirement in 1950, the 90-year-old vehicle has been kept and maintained by Lon
  
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• Over 600 objects from Wes Anderson films to go on display in London exhibition

  02-05-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Design Museum has shown off some of the hundreds of objects from Wes Anderson’s films that will go on display there later this year.
  (c) Searchlight Pictures. Photo: Charlie Gray
  The monumental candy-pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel — that was used to capture the building’s façade for the 2014 film — will be one of the largest and most recognisable items in the exhibition, which opens at the Design Museum in London in November. Spanning over 3-metres in w
  
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• The London Buzz – 1st May 2025

  01-05-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Deer have returned to Greenwich Park for the first time in four years after their paddock was improved and extended. Greenwich Wire
  A global survey of lawyers and arbitrators has found that London remains the top choice of location for international arbitrations Legal Cheek
  Toy giant Lego is to move its London headquarters from Farringdon to new offices on the South Bank overlooking the Thames. Standard
  London is “a long way off” meeting Sir Sadiq
  
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• More loos for London Bridge station – as new toilets open at last

  01-05-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London Bridge station has nearly doubled the number of public toilets in the railway station after a second set of loos opened recently.
  (c) Network Rail
  To create the extra space, Network Rail converted two former retail units on the pedestrianised Stainer Street corridor into extra toilet facilities.  They include a mixture of female units (23, including accessible, family accessible, and standard), male units (12, including standard and accessible), and three unisex toilets: accessible,
  
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• National Maritime Museum’s glass-roofed court reopening in June

  01-05-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The National Maritime Museum’s large glass-covered central court is to reopen in June, just over a year after it closed for repairs and maintenance.
  Ocean Court in April 2025 (c) National Maritime Museum
  The Ocean Court closed in March 2024 to refurbish the 25-year-old roof. Since then, more than 23,000 square feet of sun-protected glazing have been installed over the museum’s central courtyard, preventing overheating in warmer climates.
  The museum has now confirmed that it will reop
  
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• From ancient sourdough to lab-grown meat – the Science Museum to explore the evolution of food

  01-05-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This summer, the Science Museum will open a free exhibition that examines the past, present, and future of the food we eat.
  The exhibition will look at the stories behind the everyday foods we consume, from 3,500 fermented sourdough bread to the first Quorn burger and the first beef steak grown outside a cow.
  Cricket burger packaging, 2025 (c) Wriggle Foods Limited
  The exhibition will highlight how science enabled growing global populations to be better fed in the 20th century, examining the ide
  
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• Find the Southgate Stocks

  01-05-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A village green in north London contains a relic from the days when criminals were locked in wooden stocks and publicly insulted.Although this type of punishment ceased in the 1870s, these stocks are relatively modern – they were installed in 1953. The modern punishment stocks did have precedent, though, as they were replacements for some older stocks that went missing during WWII.
  Made from oak and kept outside, they had deteriorated quite badly by the millennium, so the Southgate Green A
  
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• ‘Excellent Women’ author Barbara Pym celebrated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque

  01-05-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Barbara Pym, a 1950s novelist who was rediscovered in the 1970s and lauded for her social comedies, has become the latest person to be honoured with a Blue Plaque.
  Plaque prior to installation (c) English Heritage
  The plaque, which will be formally unveiled later today, will go on the side of 108 Cambridge Street in Pimlico, where Pym lived from November 1945 to autumn 1949. It was at this Pimlico flatshare that Pym started her writing career, drawing extensively on her experiences of living and
  
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