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Glastonbury Festival announces circus line-up

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Glastonbury Festival announces circus line-up
The world’s only sword-swallowing acrobat, a troupe of rescued circus children from Kathmandu and a maths geek are among a rich and varied line-up released today at the “other side” of the Glastonbury Festival.Away from the main stage and the rock bands, thousands go for the circus and theatre area, which itself is bigger than the Edinburgh Festival.Some 400 acts involving 3,500 performers will put on 1,500 shows in three days on the eastern side of the Worthy Farm festival site, and…

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Bets suspended on Oasis reunion at Glastonbury festival

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Bets suspended on Oasis reunion at Glastonbury festival
Bookies have suspended betting on an Oasis reunion at Glastonbury after Liam Gallagher dropped some hints on Twitter.
The 41-year-old sent a succession of messages which many interpreted as a hint the band could reunite five years after splitting.

Liam tweeted the letters ‘O’, ‘A’, ‘S’ and ‘I’ before eventually following up with the final S and signing off with ‘OASIS LG’.

Speculation was so intense that Ladbrokes stopped taking bets on Oasis headlining at Worthy Farm this year.

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Glastonbury Festival bins get place in Rock and Roll museum…

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Glastonbury Festival bins get place in Rock and Roll museum…
Asked to come up with one word to sum up the Glastonbury Festival and “rubbish” would hardly be the first to spring to mind.But when staff at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wanted something which epitomised the Pilton Party they asked for a bin. Not any old dusty bin, but one of the 12,000 artistically decorated oil drums that are dotted around the festival site every year.They could have asked for mementoes from any of the top bands of the last 40 years, a mini pyramid stage or even…

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Marcus Mumford breaks world toilet marathon record

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Marcus Mumford breaks world toilet marathon record
Bristol man Marcus Mumford has set a new world record for running the fastest marathon while dressed as a toilet.
Marcus, from Henbury, raced the London marathon course at the weekend in an astonishing time of 2 hours 57mins and 28 seconds despite – or maybe because of – being dressed in a toilet costume.
The wacky 35-year-old was running for international charity WaterAid, one of the charity partners of this year’s Glastonbury Festival – the event headlined last year his namesake…

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