The annual Notting Hill Carnival has begun with west London streets being filled with colour and sound.

Musicians & dancers in bright costumes took to the streets for the children’s parade, as the largest street party in Europe is under way.

The day began with an eruption of colour as revellers met for J’ouvert at 06:00am ahead of the children’s parade, with the streets awash with bright paint and powder.

J’ouvert, means “daybreak” or “opening of the day” in French Creole, which marks the beginning of the Carnival celebrations across the Bank Holiday weekend.

Over a million people are expected to attend Carnival over the weekend.

Carnival organisers say the event’s sound system tradition is rooted in Jamaican culture and Reggae music.

Genres including rare groove, house and samba are expected to be played out across the day.

Live stages will be held in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park and Powis Square from noon.

The event continues on Monday with the adults parade, more live stages and sound systems.

On both days of carnival there will be a 72-second silence at 15:00 to remember the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as those who have died at Carnival in recent years and Kelso Cochrane whose murder in 1959 became one of the catalysts for the inception of this event.