Kent miners festival
Good turnout for Miners Festival in Kent
Happy faces down on the farm
More than seven thousand people turned out for the Lounge on the Farm Festival in Canterbury last weekend.
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Luke Castiglione has Friday's Meridian headlines. Flooding causes gridlock for festival goers on the Isle of Wight.
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Icons for Brighton Pride
Brighton Pride have announced the theme for this years spectacular celebrations in Preston Park for Saturday 3rd August.
Gay Icons is the theme for 2013 placing emphasis on the vast array of Iconic LGBT campaigners an celebrities that have shaped LGBT culture and equality.
Expect to see a deluge of Gagas, Monroes, Madonnas, and Freddie Mercurys. Other important Icons will be Oscar Wilde and Quentin Crisp. “There are so many important and influential people for us to celebrate as a community" says Paul Kemp of Brighton Pride.
Cropredy lineup announced
The lineup for this year's Cropredy music festival in Banbury has been announced. Alice Cooper, Levellers and 10CC will all be taking to the stage. The three-day festival is expected to attract an audience of up to 20,000.
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Thousands attend Hops and Harvest Festival in Kent
Thousands of people have been attending the Hops and Harvest Festival in Kent. It's all taking place at the Museum of Kent Life near Maidstone and is a chance for the younger generation to learn about what was once the county's most important industry.
In Victorian times 250,000 people worked on the hops during the four to six week season. Archive pictures in this report are from 'Hop Pickers Holiday' courtesy of Heathwood Studios.
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Air festival hailed a success
Bournemouth’s fifth Air Festival has been declared a triumph, with an estimated 964,000 festival goers across the four days.
More than 125,000 visitors and residents packed Bournemouth beach on launch day Thursday, greeting the arrival of the Red Arrows.
Another 180,000 arrived on Friday and with temperatures soaring on Saturday, crowds of more than 370,000 people thronged onto the beach, followed by 171,700 on Sunday.
Jamie's Big Feastival
Jamie Oliver's food festival began today at Blur band member, Alex James' farm in Oxfordshire.
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Jamie cooks up a feast for festival goers
Jamie Oliver has been cooking for food enthusiasts and festival goers at The BIg Feastival in Oxfordshire.
The event is being held at Blur band member, Alex James' farm near Chipping Norton and will include performances from Paloma FAith and Texas.
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Food lovers head to Oxfordshire for Jamie's Big Feastival
Hundreds of food and music lovers are heading to a rock stars farm this weekend for Jamie Oliver's Big Feastival.
The chef is providing cooking demonstrations, at Alex James' farm near Chipping Norton.
The Blur band member is hosting the event which will also see music from Texas and Paloma Faith.
Kent miners festival
by Laura Plumer
Good turnout for Miners Festival in Kent
Read the full storyThousands enjoy sunshine and Reggae in Kent
Festivalgoers to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican Independence
Hundreds of Reggae lovers are heading to the One Love Festival in Kent this weekend, to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican Independence.
For the first time, the event, which has been running at other sites for 5 years, is going to be held at Hop Farm in Paddock Wood.
Two years ago, Julian Marley, the son of Reggae legend Bob Marley played at the festival and this year it's part funded by a coffee company which is run by another of Bob Marley's sons Rohan.
The original One Love Peace Concert was a large concert held on April 22nd, 1978, at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.
This concert was held during a political civil war in Jamaica between opposing parties - the Jamaican Labour Party and the People’s National Party.
The concert came to its peak during Bob Marley & The Wailers’ performance of “Jammin”, when Marley joined the hands of the two political rivals and appealed for unity.
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