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A huge crowd watching people on top of the bus shelter in West London were heard to gasp and exclaim in shock as the top of it gave way and the revellers fell off.

Some 13 steel bands, 72 mast bands, six Brazilian bands, 36 sound systems and 300 stalls are involved in this years festival - with today known as the Adults Day Parade and Carnival.

Photos show how the scenes of dancing and packed streets at the Notting Hill Carnival go back a long way. Above: A woman dancing during the carnival in 1976.

Roads and streets surounding the festival in West London were pictured full of piles of rubbish which included a destroyed Transport for London bike and tons of takeaway boxes.

Bright and dazzling costumes were on show as the carnival procession made its way through Ladbroke Grove.

Bright and dazzling costumes were on show as the carnival procession made its way through Ladbroke Grove.

Bright and dazzling costumes were on show as the carnival procession made its way through Ladbroke Grove.

Bright and dazzling costumes were on show as the carnival procession made its way through Ladbroke Grove.