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> There was a time when a notebook was also a legal document

This is still the case in certain fields like policing where, in the United Kingdom at least, an officer's pocket notebook is an important document, albeit with some police forces now moving to electronic solutions for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_notebook

To be pedantic, both 0171 and 0181 became 020, but with the 7 or the 8 moved to the front of the number, so 0171 222 1234 [1] became 020 7222 1234, with 7222 1234 being dialable in London without the area code.

There are also now London numbers that start with a 3 or a 4 as well as 7 and 8 so it's important to properly describe the dialling code for London as 020.

Misconceptions about telephone dialling in the UK are so commonplace that they merit their own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_code_misconceptio...

[1] a real number that will get you through to Transport for London enquiries

That mention of EPS takes me back, we used to use it all over the place to form basic hub-and-spoke networks in areas where we had lots of small sites that would all connect to a single exchange. It would generally bounce along at 2Mbps which wasn't bad in those days.

We also had some large campus type sites where we would sometimes implement EPS to do LAN extension over the onsite twisted pair as it was cheaper than installing fibre and just about fast enough.

You have "Cannon Street Road" that runs from Wapping up to Whitechapel in east London but I can't think of any others: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.51016/-0.06012&laye...

Canary date palms (phoenix canariensis) can and do grow in southern England, although they don't fruit. Immature date palms need to be protected in winter, this is often achieved by bundling and tying the fronds together.

The UK adult comic "Viz" had the idea of "Kenny Loggins and his many logins" quite a few years ago: https://imgur.com/1ZUX26o

Spectacular photographs of a Canary Wharf skyscraper being completed have been rediscovered more than 30 years after they were taken.

Practically the UK must maintain an adequacy agreement with the European Commission so any changes would necessarily be constrained by that. Given that much of what became the GDPR was developed by British civil servants and in line with what the UK wanted to achieve at the time I suspect there is more than a little showboating going on here from HMG.