Parade route, where to watch and how to get around London - The best places to watch the celebration of Caribbean culture, plus where to stay and Tube station advice

Engineers have decided the best time to do major improvements to the busy stretch of rail way is a bank holiday weekend when the Notting Hill Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe, and All Points East festival are taking place. The works between Kings Cross and Peterborough will last from 10pm on Saturday until 8am on Monday.

The Central line towards Notting Hill will get very, very busy as thousands head to the carnival. To avoid that, TfL says that the best option is to get the tube or Elizabeth line to Paddington then walk around 20 minutes to Notting Hill from there.

Here’s the full list of Tube and train closures and changes during the August Bank Holiday 22–25, including Notting Hill Carnival.

Proposals to ticket Notting Hill Carnival and strip community control have sparked backlash, with many fearing the cultural legacy of the event could soon be erased.

Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are now having their features scanned by real-time facial-recognition systems in the UK -- the only European country to deploy the technology on

The Met Police commissioner has defended Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology as a tool that helps officers locate people on watch lists, ahead of its use at Notting Hill Carnival.

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