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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall,Nicholas Cecil,Megan Howe and Alastair Lockhart

Notting Hill Carnival crush left me frightened and recalling Hillsborough disaster, says Sadiq Khan, as funding row breaks out

Sir Sadiq Khan has revealed the scale of crushing at the Notting Hill carnival left him “frightened” and brought to mind the Hillsborough football disaster, in which 97 people died.

The dramatic intervention came after the London mayor was urged to rescue the carnival - the world’s second biggest street festival - after a warning that it could be cancelled without “urgent funding”.

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