The theme of the festival is Kings and Queens, with some creations drawing inspiration from celebrities and Alice in Wonderland.

The group aims to help improve the mental wellbeing of refugees in the area through football.

PJ Scott has so far run 765 miles to raise funds for charity Alzheimer’s Society.

Six 13 to 15-year-olds from Watford Swimming Club are to take on the 21-mile crossing.

Carla Khouri has said she is ‘determined’ to achieve the qualification and encourage other females of colour into mountaineering.

Maplewood Court in Maidstone, Kent, marked its first year with a ‘pink party’ featuring feather boas, top hats and a drag queen.

Arthur Salters-Hoult was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia earlier this year.

Pauline Polhill asked her daughter to have her ashes scattered via drone after hearing about it on the radio a few months before she died.

A Briton stuck on the Greek island said flooding has been ‘bonkers’ and created an ‘absolute mess’ for locals and tourists.

Ben Haldon thought about attempting the world record while in hospital recovering from surgery to remove a lump from his testicle.

A British journalist faces being stranded in France for up to six days.

The traditional River Windrush football match was held in the village of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

Sharyn Harrex has recreated artists including Sir Elton John and Sinead O’Connor.

The mucky annual event takes place at Waen Rhydd peat bog in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales.

Ashley Valentine spent five days teaching the piano to teenagers.

Surveying equipment that has never been used on Loch Ness before will make an appearance, including hydrophones.

Dende Nation are to don outfits made in Brazilian Samba schools and diverted from landfill.

Sadiq Khan said in a statement that the Notting Hill Carnival is ‘part of the very fabric of our city’.

The hunt for the Loch Ness Monster takes place on Saturday and Sunday.

Ronnie-Lee Gray, from Tilbury, made the call shortly after his mother Becky became unconscious at their home, earlier this month.