Michael Eavis has admitted that about seventy people have not received their photo ID'ed tickets for this weekend's Glastonbury Festival, but has said that everyone affected by the lost ticket problem will get access to the g. Organisers are aware of who is affected and will have replacement tickets ready for them when they arrive at the gates. Royal Mail, meanwhile, has said it is carrying our an "urgent investigation" into how the tickets went astray.
Which is good news for all those Glasto-goers yet to get their tickets, though less good news if they are huge MIA fans and are heading to Worthy Farm pretty much exclusively to see her set. Bad news for those people because she's pulled out at the last minute. And without giving any reason. Though it might be down to some kind of mud aversion - as previously reported, the consensus is that it's going to be a wet weekend though, as also previously reported, Eavis is confident a new drainage system will mean no one wakes up to find they are camping in a lake this time.
Assuming the local environment holds up to all that rain and 177,500 pairs of feet, attention at Glasto will be focused instead on global environmental issues. Eco-things are always in vogue at Glastonbury of course, but with eco-things in vogue generally at the moment Glasto is likely to be even more green than ever. As part of that the Eavises - Michael and Emily - have announced they are teaming up with their three partner charities, Greenpeace, Oxfam and Water Aid, in a bid to persuade 100,000 festival goers to sign up to the 'I Count' campaign which, I think, is about people making a pledge to do more to combat climate change.
Assuming that's a success and we're not all killed by rising sea levels and dangerous storms and crippling droughts in the next twelve months, how about looking ahead to the Glastonbury Festivals of the future? Eavis certainly is, telling the BBC that he hopes there'll be at least another decade of Glastos to come: "I'm going to keep on for another 10 years at least I reckon, touch wood and all the rest of it. One day I suppose I will feel my age, will I?" As for next year, Eavis has revealed he's hoping to have Muse as headliners. Admitting he'd been talking to the band for this year before they committed to last weekend's big Wembley gigs, Eavis said: "So I said 'Why don't you put it off till next year?'"