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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Harry Cockburn

Notting Hill Carnival should be ticketed to avoid Hillsborough-scale disaster, Tories say

London’s Notting Hill Carnival should become a ticketed event in order to avoid a deadly crowd crush on the scale of the Hillsborough disaster, politicians in the capital have claimed.

A report by the City Hall Conservatives, the largest opposition party in the London Assembly, detailed mounting safety concerns at the carnival in West London, with the authors of the report suggesting the annual event should now be ticketed.

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