PEOPLE of all ages thronged Devizes Market Place on Wednesday evening for the traditional carnival confetti battle.

Hundreds of bags of confetti were sold as families and teenagers waited for the the canons to sound the beginning of the battle.

Millions of pieces of coloured paper were soon strewn across the area as the confetti was thrown and bags were emptied over unsuspecting people's heads.

Organisers were delighted with the success and the fact that after the rain of the street festival weekend the weather stayed dry.

As the last pieces of confetti were thrown the sky was lit up with fireworks and not much more than half hour after the action started it was all over for another year.

The origins of confetti being thrown go back a century. The lightweight paper is thrown at carnival processions in a number of European countries and confetti and flower petals were first thrown at Devizes Carnival procession in 1913, the second year of the carnival.