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The sun shone on Cally Fest on Sunday, the annual street party that shuts off Caledonian Road.

Organiser Russell Swallow said: “Our area has a diverse reputation, it’s a dynamic area and it’s a privilege to show off and show everyone is working together as a community.”

The festival is in its eighth year and this year boasted three different music stages and a boxing ring as well as pop-up physics experiments.

Sadler’s Wells theatre took over a bus stop and set it up as a dance floor. Dance troupes, hula-hoopers and musicians took over the busy high street for the day in a spectacle of joy and celebration.

Mr Swallow added: “It’s colourful and inspiring, from kids’ face paint to children performing as well the older generation doing music. It’s evolved and changed and each year it has grown. It attracted a wide calibre of people. We had Borough Market-level traders as well as local businesses who dropped prices on the day to do something better for the community. It really transforms the street. You look up from the busy grey street to see everyone running around.”