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Around 200,000 festival-goers are set to descend on Worthy Farm to enjoy a weekend at the iconic music event - with thousands enjoying the action yesterday.

Sweaty Glastonbury revellers are facing massive queues for the showers already this morning after the festival kicked-off with a bang last night.

This year's event sees headline performances from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and American R&B singer SZA, while country star Shania Twain will play the coveted Legends slot. Elsewhere, a small mobile cart saw entrepreneurs flogging little bottles claiming to contain the 'vegan alternative to cocaine'. 'We used to have a screen here as no-one had any means of finding out what even the result was because we were so cut off from the outside,' she said.People watch a drone show at the end day one of Glastonbury Festival yesterdayRevellers watch a drone show at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset for the Glastonbury Festival last night

The 28-year-old is expected to treat revellers to a selection of her hit songs, including Houdini and Training Season from her third studio album, Radical Optimism, released earlier this year. Thursday festivities included a tribute to the late DJ Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1, who died in January at the age of 83.

People walk around site during day one of Glastonbury Festival 2024 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, yesterdayOn Friday, Wicks will take to the Park Stage at 10am, to put more festival-goers through their paces, where he is hoping for crowds of up to three or four thousand. Glastonbury festivalgoers will face cooler conditions for the action, as forecasters said Britain's recent hot spell is now coming to an end with windy weather on the way and unsettled conditions for the next few days.

'The drizzle should clear as we go through Sunday morning, making way for another dry day with plenty of sunshine. Read More Wellies and soggy tents: Glastonbury is soaked in downpours before the sun breaks through again 'This change is being driven by an unseasonably deep area of low pressure to the west of Scotland, this is bringing strong winds and rain to northern parts of the UK, including Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.

Met Office meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said the last time 30C was recorded in the UK before this week was on September 10 last year – nearly 300 days ago.

 

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