Despite this success, Covent Garden’s future remains uncertain. In 2021, Westminster Council introduced a borough-wide licensing scheme for street performers. While many elsewhere applied for licences ...

Covent Garden and Strand by Barry Turner (Mensch £15, 234pp) The pavement is already strewed with decayed vegetable leaves,’ Charles Dickens wrote in 1836, ‘… and all the indescribable ...

Spend an afternoon at Covent Garden is ranked #6 out of 38 things to do in London, England. See pictures and our review of Spend an afternoon at Covent Garden.

Street artistes at London's Covent Garden are marking 50 years of performing in the piazza. The location varies from the others in the city in that it has never required a licence or a permit to ...

Covent Garden's May Fayre & Puppet Festival is back for 2025. The free, family-friendly event celebrates the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of Mr Punch, an early version of today's ...

Street artistes at London's Covent Garden are marking 50 years of performing in the piazza. The location varies from the others in the city in that it has never required a licence or a permit to ...