Glastonbury Festival 2014: Metallica get warmed up for Worthy…
Metallica, who are booked for Glastonbury Festival next month played their first gig since last year, yesterday evening.
The rock band entertained fans as they performed on stage at the Sonisphere Festival in Helsinki, Finland.
The band played their first ever live performance of “Frayed Ends of Sanity” as fans braved the rain.
Metallica’s tour takes them to Sweden on Saturday and then on to Denmark, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands before heading to Worthy Farm in Pilton,…

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Glastonbury Festival's Water Aid funds mean the show is over for…
Western Daily Press reporter Tristan Cork and photographer Clare Green report from Nepal on the work being done by WaterAid, fuelled by Glastonbury Festival fundsFor the teenagers making their way to the Glastonbury Festival in a few weeks, their goal is a squat, grey pyramid. Laden down with heavy baggage, they trudge up paths and down hills to reach it.In her bright red trousers and funky patterned shawl, 18-year-old Sabina Lama looked dressed for Worthy Farm as she set off in flip-flops….

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Glastonbury Festival and WaterAid: Project brings clean water…
As the village elder statesman, Bhakta Bahadur Bista was surprisingly frank about his own community’s shortcomings.Perhaps it was easy, now they were being sorted out.”I’ve lived in this village all my life. Most of the people here are uneducated, so we didn’t know about hygiene and water.”Most of the time in the dry season, we had no water,” he said, gazing across to his own shiny new tap. “We had to walk really far – maybe five hours for it, but now it has made our…

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Mike digs deep for Glastonbury Festival
IT’S a bright, but blustery day and though the gates of the festival have yet to open, the site is a hive of activity.

4x4s dart about, security staff have already appeared to help direct the deliveries to the right place, and tractors haul piles of earth around the site.

Mike Brine, the festival’s 60-year-old field manager, is hard at work near the Pyramid Stage.

He lives in Somerton, and he’s been working at Worthy Farm since 1972, digging reservoirs and the infamous long-drop…

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