DEFRA secretary of state Owen Paterson MP visited New Covent Garden Flower Market on Monday to talk to tenants about the impact of last week’s fatal helicopter crash on business.
The market was evacuated on 16 January after a helicopter hit a crane at a construction site nearby and crashed to the ground killing the pilot and a pedestrian.
Flower delivery driver Steve Samuels was injured by falling debris having gone to the market to buy flowers and is recovering from a badly broken leg.
A spokeswoman for Covent Garden Market Authority said: “The minister came to the market to show his support. The tenants on the flower market lost a full day’s trading as well as some stock before the market opened again on Friday.”
