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New to Covent Garden NUTOPIA 42 Shelton Street. A new concept in Internet access and new media is now open. London's first cyber lounge is a modern, sophisticated space with state-of-the-art Internet access, 'art gallery', coffee and juice bar. http://www.nutopia.net/

1-> Prize Draw winners The questionnaire we published in November last year was a great success. We had a large number of very comprehensive submissions with encouraging comments and ideas. The results will be published on the Covent Garden website in due course. The prize draw has now taken place and Pat MacDonald, the Headteacher of St Joseph's Primary School, has drawn the winners: 1st - Ms J Skippon, LondonWC2 (meal for two at Da Mario's restaurant) 2nd - Mr H Burke,London WC2 (bottle of Lanson Champagne) 3rd - Mr I Ward, London WC2 (hand-coloured print of Covent Garden). For more details see http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/news/prize_draw_winners.html

2-> Local job vacancy A local job vacancy in the heart of Covent Garden is currently on offer. Drury Lane furniture designers Luke Hughes & Company are looking for a Credit Control & Data Input assistant. Full details can be found at http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/village/job_vacancy.html If you have a local vacancy and would like to recruit a local person, please email us the details and we will post your vacancy on the Covent Garden website free-of-charge.

3-> News In addition to the items mentioned in this newsletter, we produce regular news articles and updates on things that matter to Covent Garden. Some of the articles have published this year include: new home for Royal Ballet School;
Contact the Elderly;
Sital's 60th;
the modern day battle for Covent Garden;
new walk-in clinic;
mobile phone scam;
Catching the Past.
New articles are added regularly. If you have any news or want to have your shout, please email us on news@coventgarden.org.uk.

4-> Hits The Covent Garden website is going from strength to strength. Launched in December 1998, the site received well over 93,000 hits last month! The amount of feed-back we receive is enormous and the number of enquiries we handle each month continues to increase. For details of the visitor counts and stats, please see http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/website.html

Please contact us if you are interested in promoting YOUR shop, service, restaurant, product on www.coventgarden.org.uk If you are a resident or community group in Covent Garden, we can promote your services for FREE - just send us full details of your problem, project or query and we will do the rest.

5-> Fund-raising update The CGCA is very pleased to report a very generous response to the December 1999 fund-raising drive. The very precarious situation has been overcome with the help of some very kind and generous donors, both residents and businesses. From all of us at the CGCA a big 'Thank-you!' For full details (and some press cuttings on the subject) see the article at http://www.coventgarden.org.uk/news/saved_from_extinction.html

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