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Sadness in St Paul’s following news Carnival won’t go ahead in 2017
People in St Paul’s have expressed their disappointment at the news St Paul’s Carnival will not take place in 2017.
While new organisers are looking ahead to a planned 50th anniversary event in 2018, reaction on the street was that of shock and sadness.
“I think that’s a shame, I think it should go ahead,” said illustrator Stephen Longwell, 40, from Easton. “I think it has become a victim of its own success, it’s got too big and it’s too much of a problem for the police.”
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Student Vicky Williams, 27, of Gloucester Road, was hoping that she would get to experience St Paul’s Carnival for the first time this year.
She said: “I moved to Bristol especially to experience St Paul’s and since I have been down it hasn’t been on so that’s really upsetting for me. If it’s a whole big community thing that would be great to experience next year.”
Tutor Lily Hartman, 24, expressed the sadness of the majority. “That makes me feel really sad,” she said as she was told the news. “I was just texting my friend about it, because I thought Marvin Rees was really on it.”
James Dyer, 52, a security guard from Montpelier, said that next year’s carnival should bring “tunes and colours back to Bristol again”.
Stokes Croft resident Henda Noor, 33, said: “I’m a bit disappointed, because it’s a community thing and everybody comes together and engages and socialises with one another.”
She is hopeful that next year the carnival will be safer and more organised, because right now she does not feel it’s safe for all people to go.
Student Tom Elles, 20, from Cotham, simply said that what everyone wanted is for the carnival to go ahead next year.
However, retiree Hazel Day, 70, thinks it is a good thing the carnival will not go ahead in July, saying that she feels it has become “too aggressive” in recent years and she now didn’t enjoy it as much as she used to in years gone by.
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