About 720,000 people attended the two day carnival in west London, during which police made 222 arrests, Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event which since 1964 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, London, UK each August, over two days the August bank holiday Monday and the day beforehand It is led by members of the Trinidad and Tobago Trini Caribbean population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s The carnival has attracted up to 2 million people in the past,

Teenager stabbed as 750,000 enjoy Notting Hill Carnival, London

Keeping the beat: drummers in the procession, which started earlier in the day to clear the streets before nightfall. Nearly 750,000 revellers enjoyed the Notting Hill Carnival at the weekend. Police described the event as “remarkably peaceful”, with fewer people injured or arrested than last year, despite a 15-year-old boy being stabbed in a mass fight last night. The teenager was found collapsed in Monmouth Road, off Westbourne Grove, with wounds to the leg, chest and stomach. He was in a serious but stable condition in hospital today. The attack was one of a handful of outbreaks of violence after the parade last night, though none was on the scale of last year's rioting which saw dozens of people and police injured. A brawl during an after-carnival party at the Elbow Rooms in Westbourne Grove ended in two men being injured, one suffering facial wounds from broken glass. Police also arrested a group of 38 youths suspected of plotting trouble and held them until the carnival ended. Earlier a surprise performance by singer Ms Dynamite was cancelled because of safety fears. Hot weather brought an estimated 500,000 people out yesterday, adults' day, and a further 220,000 took part in the children's event on Sunday. The processions and floats had been asked to start earlier in an effort to clear the streets by nightfall to prevent trouble.