24 h. ago Glastonbury hit with intimate set cancellation day before festival starts

Music fans were excited to see act perform on smaller stage

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41 h. ago Glastonbury revellers can expect mixed weather at festival, say forecasters

The festival held at Pilton, Somerset, starts on Wednesday.

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3 d. ago Amazon shoppers rave over 'perfect for festival' tent reduced in time for Glastonbury

Glastonbury Festival starts in a few days and this tent is said to be 'easy to put up and take down', making it ideal for summer events

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7 d. ago Royal Ascot racegoers pull out all the stops as the festival gets off to a stylish start

Glamorous racegoers have pulled out all the sartorial stops as they arrived at Royal Ascot in the sunshine today to kick off the annual celebration in style.

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8 d. ago Can you spot the 10 horses trying to sneak into Royal Ascot in under 30 seconds?

The Royal Ascot kicks off tomorrow (June 17). The world famous horse racing festival starts on Tuesday, June 17, and runs until Saturday, June 21, and will draw viewers and gamblers from across the globe.

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1 week ago Parklife: Faces from the very first festival in Heaton Park over a decade ago

Having started in 2007 as the Mad Ferret Festival the event grew, changed its name to Parklife, and moved to Heaton Park in 2013

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1 week ago Shoppers say 'no, no, no' as holiday decorations spotted 'way too early'

While lots of people are looking forward to seasonal festivities, others think it's too early to start celebrating

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2 w. ago ‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival

‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], so we started talking about doing some sort of festival to raise the money. My younger brother Bill suggested it had to be pop. An agency in London gave Ronnie a list of acts including the Pretty Things, the Move, Fairport Convention, Tyrannosaurus Rex and an American act, Jefferson Airplane. We only had a £750 investment from the Isle of Wight Indoor Swimming Pool Association, but after a friend lent us his £1,000 army pay-off, we managed to book all those bands, sell 10,000 tickets and break even. In the interim, the pool association pulled out because it didn’t like the publicity about hippies, drugs and sex, but they allowed us to use their investment and we were able to pay them back. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Christmas at the Botanics returns, promising new lights, enchanting sounds and a touch of romance

Festive fans can get a head start on the season as tickets go on sale for one of Scotland’s most popular winter attractions – Christmas at the Botanics.

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3 w. ago What is Shavuot? The Jewish festival that started hours after Boulder, Colorado, attack

The attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot

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4 w. ago Suspect in fatal knife attack at German festival admits killings as trial starts

The suspect in a knife attack at a festival in the German city of Solingen has gone on trial in Duesseldorf on murder and terrorism charges

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