Glastonbury to honour John Peel
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The Glastonbury Festival will honour the late John Peel by naming its new bands tent after the DJ legend, the festival&#39;s founder says.
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A train is to be named after The Clash frontman Joe Strummer at a ceremony at Bristol Temple Meads station.
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John Peel, the broadcaster whose shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4 endeared him to listeners across generations, has died aged 65.
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Glastonbury organisers consider issuing festival-goers with photo ID cards in an attempt to foil touts.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in the northern English city of Liverpool to attend a memorial service for engineer Ken Bigley, who was beheaded by kidnappers in Iraq last month.
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John Peel, veteran radio presenter and DJ, has died suddenly on holiday in South America. John and his wife Sheila were on a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru when he suffered a massive heart attack.
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The veteran DJ John Peel has died aged 65. He suffered a heart attack shortly after being taken ill during a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila.
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Music fans attending this year's Glastonbury festival will be told to use biodegradable tent pegs in an effort to protect grazing cattle.
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Tony Blair is expected to attend a memorial service for murdered British hostage Ken Bigley. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will join members of Mr Bigley&#39;s family, including his mother
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Glastonbury music festival, one of the world's biggest, opened on Wednesday with legends such as The Who billed alongside Las Vegas rockers The Killers at concerts expected to be played out in slippery mud.
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The widow of John Peel says the response of fans to the DJ's death has been "heart-warming".
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US rapper Jay-Z is to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival, organiser Michael Eavis confirms.
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John Peel, a longtime British Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC said Tuesday. He was 65.
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Music fans going to the Glastonbury Festival will be asked to reduce their carbon footprint.
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The funeral of veteran broadcaster John Peel is to be held in Suffolk next week, the BBC announces.
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Some of the country&#39;s most successful rock musicians yesterday paid tribute to John Peel, the veteran Radio 1 DJ, whom they credited with having played a crucial part in their rise to fame.
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Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis tells the BBC that the event will take a year off in 2006.