Proms season draws record crowds
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This year's BBC Proms attract record numbers to concerts at London's Royal Albert and Cadogan Halls.
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Racing fans are gathering as the four-day Cheltenham Festival gets under way on Tuesday.
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More than 100,000 people sign up for Glastonbury tickets on the first day of the festival's registration system.
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Arts & entertainment: Almost 1,500 people queue for hours to get into surprise performance in east London
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Thousands of music fans have arrived in Staffordshire and Essex this weekend for the ninth annual V Festival.
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The streets of west London came 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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Music by Beethoven, Elgar and Walton are to launch this year's BBC Proms season at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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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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Glastonbury, the world's biggest green field arts and music festival, opened on Friday with a record 177,500 people braving rain to hear British rockers Arctic Monkeys, Icelander Bjork and the haunting sound of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
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The stars shone brightly for the New York Islanders in front of their largest crowd this season.
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Sir Paul McCartney is among the artists added to the line-up of this year's BBC Electric Proms.
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Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and Jamiroquai are added to the BBC's Electric Proms line-up.
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Police say at least half a million people are expected to attend the main day of the 43rd Notting Hill Carnival.
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Three hundred events and nearly 1,000 artists were showcased throughout the evening.
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The Notting Hill Carnival began amid radiant sunlight in west London on Sunday with hundreds of thousands of people attending the children&#39;s carnival.
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A record crowd of 4,800, many of them youngsters, watched Sunday as Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy were inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Some 100,000 tickets for dates in Manchester and London sell out in 90 minutes.