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• Covent Garden unveils outdoor dining plans

  05-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An estimated 500 extra table seats will be created around Covent Garden next week as restaurants as over 25 restaurants across the Covent Garden estate open with alfresco seating from 12th April.
  The new alfresco seating will span 7 streets as well as the Piazza, with the majority of covers providing weatherproof drinking and dining options for visitors, with heaters, large parasols and windbreak screens.
  Additional streets around Covent Garden are also being pedestrianised to give restaurants m
  
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• The Regent’s Canal sharks have moved to Islington

  05-04-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some sharks that have been hanging around the Regents Canal in Hackney have swum up the canal a bit and can now be found in the City Road Basin, in Islington.They’re art and surprisingly controversial art at that.
  The fibreglass sharks were the winning entry in an annual art competition run by Hackney based Antepavilion, but provoked the ire of the council as putting them in the canal lacked planning permission.
  There’s a wider issue as Antepavilion seems to have a track record of do
  
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• London’s Alleys: South Molton Passage, W1

  05-04-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a short little passageway between a couple of the posh shops that line a similarly named lane just off Bond Street.What was originally called South Moulton Row was laid out in the 1720s by the Grosvenor family, but initially, only with buildings on the eastern side. The western side, where this passage can be found was added later as a housing development by the City of London, but later converted into shops and offices.
  The odd diagonal of the road compared to all the other streets in t
  
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