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Covent Garden

Community

Chemical fumes scare sparks sports centre evacuation
02 August — By Tom Foot
From the Camden New Journal
Monumental fun at Seven Dials
20 June

Community

Office blaze blamed on discarded cigarette
25 January — By Samantha Booth

Food & Drink

Cora Pearl: ‘There’s a lot of love here’
11 January — By Tom Moggach

The Xtra Diary

Covent Garden market set to return next summer
16 November — By The Xtra Diary

Transport

Last ride togther: four war time buses in Covent Garden this weekend
28 September — By Tom Foot

Business

Tributes to ‘King of Clubs’ Peter Stringfellow as nightclub owner dies at 77
08 June — By Richard Osley

Business

Bartenders back gig venue threatened with closure
20 April — By Beatrice Guzzardi

Business

Gas firm apologises for leak chaos after hundreds were evacuated
06 April — By Heather Kroeker
Battle to save ‘delicate ecosystem’ of Neal’s Yard
06 April — By William McLennan

Property

Rolling Stones legend backs live music venue threatened with closure
02 March — By Tom Foot

Community

Anti-homeless ‘boulders’ are removed after Extra intervenes
23 February — By Tom Foot and Biba Kang
From the Camden New Journal

Community

London’s oldest breakdancer dies at 91
16 February — By Helen Chapman
From the Camden New Journal
Film designer took his life days after feeling ‘distressed’ by £20,000 health bill
14 February — By William McLennan
Police appeal for help in search for vulnerable 15-year-old last seen in Covent Garden
22 October — By Geoffrey Sawyer

Community

Puppeteers wow crowds at Covent Garden Punch and Judy celebration
26 May — By Sabrina Dougall

Community

The Roxy club, credited with birth of punk, gets commemorative plaque
28 April — By Alina Polianskaya
WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Meet Covent Garden psychic medium Lee Whyberd
21 April — By George Engels
Striking cleaners: ‘We are not the dirt you clean’.
17 March — By Alina Polianskaya

Community

WESTMINSTER PEOPLE: Gillian Wheeler, founder of the Covent Garden Academy of Flowers
17 March — By Alina Polianskaya

Food & Drink

Cinnamon Bazaar, a hot new haunt in Covent Garden
23 February — By Tom Moggach

Education

Pioneering school closes road to traffic
10 February — By Tevye Markson

Crime

Covent Garden residents tell police: We’re sick of drug dealers
12 December — By William McLennan
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