CARNIVAL fever is set to grip Romsey this weekend.

Hundreds of people are expected to line the streets as the annual event will take to the streets on Sunday.

The event, which carnival boss bosses expect to have a huge turnout, will include some key changes this year.

They include the introduction of a ‘senior carnival queen’ to sit alongside the traditional queen for the first time in 23 years.

Another new event brought in this year is ‘Romsey’s Got Talent’.

That will be held at Mountbatten School’s Lantern Theatre on Saturday from 6pm to 9pm.

The procession will start at 3pm and the parade starts from the Romsey Industrial Estate.

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It will then go down Dutton’s Road then Station Road and make its way into the town centre.

This year’s carnival queen is Naomi Reading and senior queen is Lizzie Dutfield, wife of former and well-known Romsey window cleaner Albert Dutfield.

And senior attendant is Bethany Marchant and juniors are Caitlyn Little and Mia Marchant.

It is the culmination of a week of fund fun in the town which has already got under way with the annual bedrace bed race and go kart race as hundreds of people watched teams brave the wet weather to get soaked with water bombs.

The teams in the bedrace bed race included George’s Trust, The Post Office, Bishops Blaize pub and Romsey and Chandler's Ford & District Round Table.

The Sunnyside team from the 3rd Romsey Scouts won the go kart race, while the George’s Trust who dressed as Oompa Loompas won the bedrace bed race for the second year in a row.

The charities which will benefit from the carnival this year are Romsey Family Support Group and Romsey Air Cadets.

The other charities to receive funds are Cupernham Nurture Group, Romsey Opportunity Group, Romsey Red Cross, Mountbatten Music Academy and the Allsorts Club.