NottingHill Carnival revellers paint the town red as hundreds join Europe's biggest street party🥁
This year, over a million people are expected to attend the carnival and there will be an increased number of screening arches to check for knives at the event.
Today's revellers have been pictures partaking in traditional festivities by hurling chocolate, paints and powder at each other while singing and dancing.Credit: London News PicturesMany party goers were seen enjoying the J'ouvert traditions of hurling chocolate, paints and powder at each other25 Police watch over as revellers enjoy J'ouvert, a paint fight that officially marks the start of the Notting Hill carnivalPolice out in numbers in the early morning as the annual Notting Hill carnival kicks off with the Family Day parade and children dressed in colourful costumesOver 12,000 cops will be at the scene of the north London event throughout the August Bank Holiday weekendA police van pictured in Ladbroke Grove this morning where revellers began painting the town red in the early...
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