London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to mark the 60th anniversary of Notting Hill carnival, celebrating it as a symbol of the capital's diversity and resilience. He highlights City Hall's increased funding for this year's event, which is now the world's second-largest street festival, and connects its origins to the Windrush generation's struggle against racism in postwar Britain.

Khan notes carnival generates roughly £400m for London's economy each year and that City Hall provided £4.66m in funding this year, more than triple last year's amount, to fund extra stewards, signage and temporary CCTV. He traces the event's roots to the racist violence of 1958 and the murder of Kelso Cochrane in 1959, crediting activists Claudia Jones and Rhaune Laslett, along with steelpan musician Russ Henderson, with creating what grew into today's carnival.