This year Newbury Carnival 2017 will be on Sunday 16th July. The Carnival Parade will start at 2pm and the procession will wind through the Town Centre and finish in Park Way. The Carnival Fete will again be in Victoria Park.

Jenny Unthank from Stagecoach Newbury and Marlborough is already planning an entry and said, “We absolutely had a ball last time – my parents loved it as much as the children did! It is lovely to do something that all the children can do at any age and doesn’t cost anything. The atmosphere was amazing and we loved it.”

The Carnival Parade in 2015 had fifty three entries, including the wonderful John the Giant, the amazing Rampage Mas Band, the Harley Davidson Drive Through and the Reading Scottish Pipe Band. A record 10,000 people from the local community watched the parade. A large and very successful Carnival Fete was…