WAS it the biggest and best Teignmouth carnival procession ever?

Local with long memories reckon it could well have been.

There were more than 60 entries, and the length of the parade meant that when the front-runners were in Bank Street, the tail-enders were still leaving the Upper Den.

Thousands packed the streets to cheer, clap and happily toss coins into the collection boxes as the colourful, funny, weird, bizarre, imaginative and wonderful floats and walking entries wound around the narrow streets of the town.

The reaction of the crowds, who ranged from toddlers, teenagers, mums and dads to pensioners, said it all.

Some of the entries were works of art that took many hours of work and preparation to put together, and included pharoahs, spiderman, jellyfish from Inverteign School, pirates, Cheryl Cole impersonators, and superheroes.

The whole week was a credit to the 'new blood' committee who took the bold and ambitious decision to expand the carnival to make it one of the best in the area. The thousands who had a ball during the week vindicated the expanded carnival, and sent the message, 'More of the same next year please.'