Calls for the Notting Hill Carnival to be moved from the streets of west London grew after pictures emerged of thugs brawling with machetes in front of petrified revellers.
Ken Marsh, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the festival should be held in a park, as two men remained in hospital today, one in a critical condition, following violence on Monday at the end of the two-day event, during which 75 officers were assaulted.
