Monday, February 15, 2010
The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, May 7, 2009
Michael Eavis has reportedly called an emergency meeting amid fears that Glastonbury could be affected by swine flu.
The festival organiser is concerned that further outbreaks of the virus in the UK could mount pressure on him to cancel this year’s event.
“So many people gathered in one place is a risk, and if the Government wanted [...]
