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The world’s second-largest street festival returns this bank holiday weekend as London welcomes the 58th edition of Notting Hill Carnival. Its happening comes as a relief: there had been murmurs of cancellation; rumours of ticketing when it has always been free to attend. Organisers warned about the carnival’s future. In…

Among nearly 1,400 suspects held, Steven Barrs targeted same Notting Hill branch of Co-op 15 times

Mark Rowley says technology will be ‘non-discriminatory’ and ‘does not perform in a way which exhibits bias’

Britain’s top policeman seems to think violence will go unchecked if officers jig with the crowd. Risible, but hey, better to be stiff as a board than labelled woke, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir

With two murders and over 60 officers injured during last year’s festivities, the Met fears dancing distracts police on duty

Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology ‘unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate’

Fears have grown of a disaster at the event due to overcrowding and rising crime

Parades, processions, and pepper pot — this is what you need to see and do at Carnival this year

Film tourists, market traders and residents react as council imposes traffic control measures on famous London street

Richard Wilkins, who runs London's smallest fine dining restaurant, has branded Scotland Yard ‘a failure of organisation’

The Church of England has a new, sexy look - and it’s making people take notice