Notting Hill carnival gets going

The Notting Hill Carnival is taking place in west London, as hundreds of youngsters take part in the children's day on the first day of the event.Police numbers have been increased in an effort to prevent trouble in the wake of this month's riots in London.Events also have an earlier end time of 19:00 BST, on both Sunday and Monday.

The annual steelband competition, held on Saturday, was won by the Mangrove Steelband. It beat the Ebony Steelband, which has won on 19 previous occasions.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators are lining the route, along Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Grove, over the bank holiday weekend.
The Metropolitan Police has deployed 5,500 officers to patrol the carnival area, with 6,500 working on Monday.Crowds built "steadily at anticipated levels", it said, and officers were searching revellers to "stop weapons getting into the carnivalThere were 33 floats in all and four arrests had been made so far, Scotland Yard added.In both 2009 and 2010, there were 243 arrests across the two days of the event.