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26 August, 2008 10:57 (GMT +00:00)
Time to end the carnival
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If an event requires 11,000 police officers and still has over 300 arrests and running battles with the police, that should be enough evidence for anybody in London to say to the organisers of the Notting Hill carnival that your time is up.

The fact that the events is held in one of London’s most affluent areas with properties worth millions, are the local residents in Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove not human beings? Do these people not have the right to live in their own homes without the fear of being subjected to violence and "lock downs" by the police.

Indeed the black community is uneasy with the way in which carnival has developed and has lost the essence and its cultural identity.

Either carnival is to move to a location like Hyde Park were the police and the orgnanisers can allow the event to last longer and have more revelers or the event is cancelled indefinitely.


 
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