Notting Hill carnival partners with Glastonbury festival for the first time

Parades with Caribbean dancers and music will wend their way through the festival site, ending with steel band performances

Notting Hill carnival will partner with Glastonbury festival for the first time this year, filling the site's already colourful walkways with Caribbean floats and processions.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the carnival had been staged every year by west London's Caribbean communities since the event coalesced in the mid-1960s - eventually becoming Europe's largest annual street party. However, it has not been staged since 2019 after two carnivals were cancelled owing to Covid fears. Livestreamed events were held online in their place.