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Friday, July 3, 2009
CREAMFIELDS festival has been named as Tourism Event Of The Year at The Mersey Partnership Tourism Awards 2009.Filed Under: Awards, Festivals. No Comments
Saturday, July 4, 2009
GT Trax Limited, the Hertfordshire based ground protection and event seating specialists, is preparing to launch a brand new product into the UK event market – the Mega-Sol.
The Mega-Sol is a truly unique concept for providing cover for up 250 guests in sunshine or rain. Based on the principal of an open umbrella, the Mega-Sol [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
With less than 48 hours to go until the much talked about Regatta Fireworks, Wokingham Borough Council have gone back on their decision to allow a crucial temporary footpath suspension.
Wokingham Council had agreed to suspend a very small stretch of footpath for a short time either side of the display, crucial for health and safety. [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
THE Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) is consulting livestock breed societies to assess support for a event to succeed the Royal Show.
The concept is for a livestock event at Stoneleigh which is run by the industry, for the industry, facilitated by the RASE.
In a letter to societies, RASE chief executive Brian Warren explained the [...]
Friday, July 3, 2009
CREAMFIELDS festival has been named as Tourism Event Of The Year at The Mersey Partnership Tourism Awards 2009.
The Daresbury dance event, to be held on August 29 and 30, fought off the British Open Golf Championships, Tate Liverpool, Klimt and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
Cream CEO James Barton was proud to receive such lofty recognition. He said: [...]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Athletes have been left in anticipation by event organiser Urbanrace after a mysterious announcement appeared on their website today (1 July 2009).
The South East based organiser of The Sussex Triathlon and The Brighton Triathlon have posted a note on their website homepage which declares a new event will be launched in five days time. The [...]
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Heavy showers of rain overnight and into the Monday morning caused headaches for drivers leaving the Glastonbury Festival site in Pilton.
Cars stuck in the mud caused big delays and one driver told the BBC it took four hours to leave the Somerset site.
Traffic was heavy on Monday with major delays on the A37 southbound from [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Bruce Springsteen cost the festival organiser Michael Eavis £3,000 when his set breached the 12.30am curfew by nine minutes.
Mr Eavis said: “I gave him ten minutes and he took nine. I’ll pay the fine, £3,000. Paul McCartney — 2004 headliner — paid me back. I’m going to pay the Bruce Springsteen one myself. It’s not [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
More than 100,000 revellers at Britain’s most famous music festival won’t go thirsty – thanks to a local company.
Gosport firm Huhtamaki has been given one of the most important jobs for Glastonbury, supplying the pint cups.
More than a million pints of cider and lager are expected to be knocked back at the four-day festival which [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Bristol’s international kite festival could be scrapped in the next month if new backers do not come forward.
Organisers of the festival, which is due to take place at Ashton Court, on September 12 and 13, have launched an impassioned plea for sponsorship to secure the future of the event.
Although exhibitors and traders have been confirmed [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Slough’s largest community event has been axed for the second year in a row with organisers accusing the police of making ‘unreasonable’ demands for providing security at the festival.
The company behind the Slough Mela has been told that this year’s music and culture bash can only go ahead on the condition that it pays Thames [...]
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Audio-visual company D & A Media will be helping superbike maker Ducati put the wow factor into its Ducati Village hospitality suite at the World Superbike Race at Donington this weekend with a three-metre wide screen.
The growing Essex company is providing the giant display in the Ducati “Launch Pad” which will see the new 1100cc [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury founder, will stand down as the music festival’s organiser in 2011 to make way for a “new generation”
The 73-year-old Somerset farmer, who launched the festival 39 years ago, said he plans to hand over the reins to his daughter Emily and her fiance.
Previously, he said he would keep going until his [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Organisers of the London Olympics have begun advertising for meteorologists to predict weather patterns in 2012.
Consultants will spend two years preparing for the Games by creating a detailed database on the micro-climates around more than 20 venues in London and elsewhere.
Officials hope to be able to accurately predict the weather so that they are able [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
WORCESTERSHIRE presentation and communication company the drpgroup from Hartlebury added to its roster of satisfied customers after staging the Strategic Risk Awards in Berlin.
The event saw 160 risk industry professionals from across Europe gather for the annual event, organised by Strategic Risk magazine, and the evening passed off so successfully that the company has already [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The 2009 Henley Regatta Firework display will go ahead.
Despite the challenge of overcoming the Regatta’s decision to withdraw their support the organisers James Brennan of Hofmanns and Angie Major of Blueberry Business have been working hard to raise sponsorship from local businesses.
Several businesses have confirmed their support including headline sponsors Tesco Henley and The Copas [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
DESPITE two major music events being axed in Oxfordshire, the organiser of the county’s Cornbury Festival says the show will go on.
It has been confirmed that the annual Cornbury Festival — which attracted crowds of up to 12,000 people last year — is still set to take place in Charlbury, near Witney, on Saturday, July [...]
