The acts have been booked and now organisers are hoping that the weather will hold out for this year's event which has the theme World, Food and Costume.

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Topping the bill this year will be Dingle Fingle's Clown Town CrimeWatch, who are clowns that perform with a car.

Other attractions include the Baton Twirlers, Leeds All Star Majorettes and a falconry display.

The carnival will start at noon when the parade of floats will set off from Victoria Road before completing a tour of Pudsey which is expected to take up to an hour.

The Bradford Industrial Museum have loaned horses to draw the Carnival Queen, Lauren Prince, 10, in the procession. Lauren is a pupil at St Joseph's Catholic School and is also a
member of the 1st Woodhall Guides.

The parade will then wind up at Queen's Park where Lauren will be crowned by the Lord Mayor of Leeds.

Seven sets of majorette troups will be performing along the parade route and the best troupe will receive a trophy.

The money raised will be divided between the RSPCA charity shop in Pudsey and the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Families Association.

At the park there will be a number of stalls and the Pudsey Civic Society have funded a marquee to shelter people in case it rains.

There will also be an exhibition from the Thornbury Paratroopers who will be demonstrating how their parachutes work and giving children the chance to try
one on to see how much it weighs.

Carnival organiser Maureen Harrison said: "The weather looks set to be brilliant this year so we are looking forward to a fantastic day.

"The parade and the carnival gets the people of Pudsey excited and despite the bad weather last year a large number of people turned up.

"The parade also acts like the pied piper of the carnival and helps to draw people in.

"This year's theme of world, food and costume helps to embrace multi-culturalism and it will be open to anyone and everyone.

"We are just hoping that people will enjoy the sun, the fun and the fair."

Sponsoring the event are Marks and Spencer, Asda, JCT600 and Lindley Clough, a firm of solicitors based in Lowtown.