Muddy good time as Britain&#39;s Glastonbury Festival begins
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The Glastonbury rock and pop festival kicked off Friday with Arctic Monkeys and Bjork headlining as heavy rain transformed the vast countryside venue into a mud bog.
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More than 100,000 people sign up for Glastonbury tickets on the first day of the festival's registration system.
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More people and more security are greeting the last Glastonbury ticket-holders as the festival begins.
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The Notting Hill Carnival began amid radiant sunlight in west London on Sunday with hundreds of thousands of people attending the children&#39;s carnival.
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Thousands of people are beginning the holiday getaway, amid warnings of severe weather across the UK.
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Festival founder Michael Eavis announces the Glastonbury Festival will be taking a break in 2006.
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All you need to know as the year-long festival begins
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Tens of thousands of revellers are at the Reading, Leeds and Creamfields music festivals at the weekend.
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Glastonbury, the world's biggest green field arts and music festival, opened on Friday with a record 177,500 people braving rain to hear British rockers Arctic Monkeys, Icelander Bjork and the haunting sound of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
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Arts & entertainment: Charlie Brooker had never been to a festival before. So how would he cope with the full Glastonbury experience?
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After a promising start, the heavens opened at this year's Guardian Hay festival  - but it didn't drive away the dedicated festival-goers. Our photographer, Martin Godwin, captured the glorious rain-soaked scenes in Wales.
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Thousands of people gather on the streets of west London for the opening day of the Notting Hill Carnival.
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With much of England bracing itself for the &quot;wettest day in 50 years&quot; the 121st Wimbledon got off to the kind of soggy start that has become as traditional as strawberries and cream at the biggest tournament in tennis.
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Fans who buy tickets for the Glastonbury festival will be issued with photo ID cards in an attempt to beat touts.
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Wind-powered charger prototyped Eco-warriors planning to head down to the Glastonbury mud festival - sorry, music festival - later this month will be able to re-charge their mobile phones in an almost entirely carbon-neutral fashion.â¦
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WIN tickets to see rock supergroup The Who at Britain's newest summer festival!   Pete Townshend & Co top a star-studded bill at the Knowsley Hall Music Festival on Merseyside this month.   Other big names include Keane, Madness, The Thrills, Joss Stone, The Zutons and The Coral.
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As Phish&#39;s career-ending Coventry festival in Vermont is slowly dismantled in the mud, producers are unraveling the impact of torrential rain preceding the concert that vastly impacted the band&#39;s final fest.