By Catarina Demony and Vitalii Yalahuzian

LONDON (Reuters) -Revellers, dancers and musicians filled the streets of west London on Monday for the annual Notting Hill carnival, one of the world’s largest street parties that, despite its cultural prominence, has struggled with funding challenges.

The 57th edition of the carnival – which celebrates the city’s diversity and how generations of migrants and their descendants have contributed to British society – was expected to attract more than one million people.

Monday’s celebrations, the event’s third and final day, featured trucks draped in colourful materials carrying bands and sound systems playing soca and reggae songs, surrounded by people in bright festival costumes.

The carnival traces its roots to the hundreds of thousands of migr

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