TODAY’S EVENTS

9.30am Over 500,000 are expected at the second day of London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Noon The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds holds its Winged Hussars Horse Show, a second performance at 3pm.

6pm Celebrity contestants attend the launch of the new series of Strictly Come Dancing at BBC Broadcasting House in Central London.

8pm UN Security Council briefing on the mission in Libya at UN HQ in New York.