The Sunrise Festival, which takes place near Yeovil, has been cancelled because of severe flooding.
The festival, which was due to get underway this weekend, was called off following a decision by Avon and Somerset police.
Much of Somerset and the surrounding counties were hit by heavy rainfall last night (May 29th) which led to flash flooding.
20,000 people were due to see The Orb, The Beat, System 7 and Seize The Day appear at Sunrise, reports the BBC.
It’s understood that 5,000 people had already arrived on site when the heavy rain began.
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- Where has everyone gone to camp? We are in the national park but someone said something about everyone being in a place about three miles away! Help! We are in the library desperately searching for the place the party is at!!!
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- Where has everyone gone to camp? We are in the national park but someone said something about everyone being in a place about three miles away! Help! We are in the library desperately searching for the place the party is at!!!
- if anyone knows anything about alternate camping and parties and whatnot text 07845174097
- Thank goodness its been cancelled. No one locally wanted this noise anyway and it was only the looney Lib Dem council that let it go ahead anyway despite lots of objections. So goodbye and good riddance,
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- Sod of you stupid nimby - just because you don’t like having a good time doesn’t mean you should be happy at others misfortune.
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