Covent Garden

The boring London hotel voted ‘Britain’s best’

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Here we go again. Another year, another bizarre list from Tripadvisor. The world’s largest travel companion platform has announced the winners of its annual Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best Hotel Awards, celebrating this year’s highest-rated hotels worldwide according to the platform’s global users. Of course, preference for one hotel over another is largely a … Read more

Behind the scenes with Covent Garden’s street performers whose future is under threat

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Pete Kolofsky: ‘If Westminster Council were successful the result would be the death of Covent Garden street theatre’ – Heathcliff O’Malley Daredevil unicyclists, master illusionists, knife-eating acrobats: Covent Garden’s performers are an institution. They create a crazy, Vaudevillian microcosm, gobbled up by enthusiastic tourists. But today Westminster Council has launched a public consultation on the … Read more