Glastonbury Festival: Michael Eavis' final touches to Worthy Farm

Glastonbury Festival: Michael Eavis' final touches to Worthy Farm
Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has admitted he ‘would simply not have believed it’ if he had been told when he began his annual shin-dig that it would become the biggest party on the planet.The dairy farmer turned music legend was co-ordinating last-minute finishing touches to Worthy Farm – and the surrounding farms – in Pilton over the weekend, in preparation for the 175,000 people, and thousands more staff and artists, who are set to invade this week.Gates open on…

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Glastonbury Festival Weather: It could be a mud bath as rain is…

Glastonbury Festival Weather: It could be a mud bath as rain is…
It has been the most anticipated weather forecast for months, but now it seems certain that the dry weather will break, and rain will arrive – just in time to turn the Glastonbury Festival site into a mudbath.Forecasters warned the 200,000 people packing this week to get to Worthy Farm that rain will arrive on Thursday, and it will probably rain every day for the rest of the festival.Conditions have been perfect for the festival so far – the army of people building the stages and…

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Glastonbury Festival weather forecast now says rain on day two

Glastonbury Festival weather forecast now says rain on day two
DESPITE initial forecasts of sunny weather for Glastonbury Festival, the Met Office is predicting a high chance of rain during day two at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.

The Met Office says if you’re arriving at Glastonbury Festival on Wednesday to get the most of your five-day ticket, then you will be pitching your tent in 18C sunshine.

But cloud is going to gradually cover the sky up to 1pm on Thursday, with a 65 per cent chance of rain up to 7pm, before it grows less likely at 45 per…

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What type of Glastonbury Festival person are you?

What type of Glastonbury Festival person are you?
IS 2014 your first Glastonbury Festival? Or have you been so many times you know your way around better than the stewards?

With 170,000 people living under canvas together on Worthy Farm in Pilton for three to five days, sometimes through terrible weather, Glastonbury Festival is not for everyone.

After 40-plus years of practice some people expect Glastonbury Festival to be a clean, micro-managed experience like DisneyWorld. Others think the festival has swayed too far from its hippy roots and…

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