Fears 400 years of Covent Garden street theatre at risk from council clampdown by Daniel Boffey Chief Reporter

Performers say traditional fun could end by Christmas as Westminster enforcement vote looms From the fire-eaters to high-wire walkers and knife-jugglers, the street performers of Covent Garden in central London have been drawing rapt crowds for centuries. The magicians, daredevils and illusionists are now attempting their most challenging trick yet: avoiding police enforcement of council regulations that they say cou…

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