Carnival Crowds Expected to Top A Million
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The festival spirit of revellers at the Notting Hill carnival was praised by police today as the colourful summer spectacular entered its second day.
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The streets of west London were coming alive with the sound of the Caribbean at the Notting Hill Carnival, with more than a million revellers expected to turn out to celebrate the event's 40th year.
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Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of west London Monday for the colorful, calypso-filled Notting Hill Carnival, billed as Europe's largest street festival.
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Even the pouring rain couldn't put a damper on this country's famed carnival as tens of thousands of revelers took to the streets Saturday, dancing to the sound of samba drums on the second day of the annual celebration.
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AT Pounds 135,000 for a 90-minute journey, it will be beyond the reach of all but the very rich. But those who can afford a ticket will enjoy a truly out-ofthis world experience.
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More than 750,000 people marked the 40th birthday of the Notting Hill Carnival with a burst of Caribbean colour and the infectious calypso beat.
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Racing fans are gathering as the four-day Cheltenham Festival gets under way on Tuesday.
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Dancers dolled up in feathers, flamboyant performers and elaborate floats filed through west London Monday as the Notting Hill Carnival -- Europe&#39;s biggest street party -- pumped up the volume on its Caribbean rhythms.
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Gays, lesbians and their supporters from all over Europe were set to gather in their hundreds of thousands here Saturday in a massive parade, as London and Paris also held their annual Gay Pride marches.
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Thousands of people are expected to turn out at 300 hunts in the UK at the start of this year's season.
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Carnival Corp. &amp; plc, the world&#39;s largest cruise company, reported Friday that higher ticket prices and onboard sales propelled third-quarter earnings up 40 percent to its best three-month results ever.
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Despite competition from the Super Bowl, thousands of revelers lined up along streets Sunday as New Orleans wrapped up a big Carnival weekend with another day of parades leading up to Tuesday's finale.
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Tens of thousands of revellers are at the Reading, Leeds and Creamfields music festivals at the weekend.
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THOUSANDS of spectators, including many flag-waving children, lined Sydney&#39;s George Street today to greet Australia&#39;s Olympians in their biggest welcome home parade.
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Australia's largest city, Sydney, geared up Monday for its biggest night of the year, with around one million revellers expected to turn out for its harbourside fireworks spectacular.
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Police predict a million people will attend the Notting Hill Carnival by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend.
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Tens of thousands of music fans are making their way to Scotland's largest music festival T in the Park.