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BBC Launches Map Showing 3G Coverage

Help for those sick of waving their smartphone around in the air to snag a signal

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Tuesday news. Make sure you check out those mayoral candidates on the last entry…

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Thursday’s round up features some newly employed hawks, and some very shiny eggs.

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Tuesday’s other capital news.

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Nation’s Paintings Go Online

63,000 images, including many of London, are made available.

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British Museum Scoops Art Fund Prize 2011

The game-changing project A History of the World in 100 Objects wins it

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BBC Television Centre Up For Sale

Half a century of television history draws to a close.

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British Museum Up For Art Fund Prize

Groundbreaking project A History of the World in 100 Objects could scoop £100,000 for the BM.

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Olympics Comedy Twenty Twelve Starts Tonight

Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes are in BBC4′s mockumentary, going behind the scenes of London 2012′s Deliverance Team.

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Boris Cancels FIFA’s Hotel Freebie

Boris Johnson has hit back at FIFA after the failure of England’s 2018 World Cup bid – by rescinding his offer of a free stay for the delegation at the Dorchester Hotel during the Olympics. Rival bidders Russia were awarded the World Cup last week …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 18th October 1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later to become the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC) is formed, and soon starts broadcasting from Marconi House on the Strand. Tuesday – 19th October 2003: After 44 days of being …