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Last Updated: Monday, 25 August, 2003, 11:09 GMT 12:09 UK
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In pictures: Notting Hill Carnival
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Sunday was Children's day at the two-day carnival
Children in the parade
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Children dress up and dance down the street
Child in the parade
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Thumbs up! One child in the parade gives her approval of the Notting Hill Carnival
Seven-year-old Elisha Lundin and her dad Stuart
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Seven-year-old Elisha Lundin and her dad Stuart get into the carnival spirit
Costumed dancer
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Dancers bring colour and movement to the streets of west London
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While these women top off their bright look with feathered headdresses
People enjoy the carnival from a flat on Ladbroke Grove
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Lucky local residents get a great view
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Local people offer £1 to use their toilets
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More than 100,000 were estimated to have joined in what is Europe's biggest street party
Woman sleeps on the route
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But it's all too much for one reveller


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Carnival dancerNotting Hill Carnival
Find out more about Europe's largest street festival

NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL 2003

Carnival gets going
Dancers and musicians entertain about 500,000 revellers

KEY STORIES
Carnival's attack on the senses
Children's day goes smoothly
Turning carnival into cash
Arrests head off 'troublemakers'
Carnival goes corporate

FEATURES
'Preparing for war not carnival'
Marching through carnival's past
Thirty years of costume drama
Europe's biggest street party

INFORMATION
Carnival route map
Travel information
Carnival website


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