Sun shines on festival revellers
Sun shines on festival revellers
Show all 15More than a million revellers were thought to have attended the Notting Hill Carnival yesterday, making it Europe's largest street festival, which has been held every August bank holiday since 1966.
An estimated five tonnes of chicken and 25,000 bottles of rum were consumed, and some 16,000 records were played at 41 different sound systems. There were no reported gun incidents.
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