Glastonbury Festival: Too early to say if 5,000 people skipped…
HAVE we lost nearly 5,000 Glastonbury Festival train travellers? First Great Western say it’s too early to say if expectations of 15,000 were met yet.

The number of people travelling to Castle Cary Railway Station to go to Glastonbury Festival grows every year. But First Great Western said the early number of 10,762 travellers arriving last week is “dubious”.

That is the number believed to have arrived at the station but spokesman James Davies said: “It’s far too early to say…

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Glastonbury Festival: Jack White's uncomfortable sandwich – a…
Sandwiched between two giants of the music world such as Robert Plant and Metallica may not be the best time for a relative underling to start acting the big man.
But the impression Jack White gave me on Saturday night was of someone who felt they were much better than they were.
We all understand that performers need stage presence and a certain arrogance, but you have to earn the swagger.
And there are other ways to handle the crowd, as Ed Sheeran proved so adeptly the following…
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Jump 66 fire up the Rocket Lounge in Glastonbury Festival's…
JUMP 66 took the Rocket Lounge in Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri La by storm on Friday night.

Their house shaking, hip swinging, stomping, jump blues transformed the Rocket Lounge from an empty venue to a packed out, hot sweaty, jive hive.

Jump 66 play 1940s-50s jump blues, swing and jive. Their high octane fueled set of West Coast Chicago, Jump numbers interspersed with classic R&B pulled in a big crowd and proved an irresistible invitation to boogie. I defy anybody not to dance when they…

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Mud main cause of Glastonbury Festival injuries
MEDICS are pleased with the low number of injuries at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, but there was no escaping the main mischief-maker – the mud.

Festival Medical Services saw more than 3,000 patients at Glastonbury Festival, with only 61 of them needing to go to hospital.

The most common injury was sprains, strains and broken legs and ankles. But volunteer medics managed to cut down the number of referrals to hospital from Worthy Farm in Pilton to less than 2 per cent thanks to their…

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