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| Early Glastonbury festival-goers warned of traffic chaos | Early Glastonbury festival-goers warned of traffic chaos |
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| Festival-goers are being urged "not to set off" for Glastonbury due to heavy traffic around the site. | Festival-goers are being urged "not to set off" for Glastonbury due to heavy traffic around the site. |
| Organisers said current wet weather and ground conditions were causing delays but they were doing everything they could to "deal with this situation". | Organisers said current wet weather and ground conditions were causing delays but they were doing everything they could to "deal with this situation". |
| Festival founder Michael Eavis said: "We did ask people to come in later." | Festival founder Michael Eavis said: "We did ask people to come in later." |
| The gates officially opened at 08:00 BST but people have reported queuing for more than seven hours to get on to the site. | |
| More than 100,000 people are expected to descend on Worthy Farm for the five-day event. | More than 100,000 people are expected to descend on Worthy Farm for the five-day event. |
| But many ticket-holders have spent the night trying to get to the site. One told the BBC he had been in the queue for "about four and a half hours" and only moved half a mile. | But many ticket-holders have spent the night trying to get to the site. One told the BBC he had been in the queue for "about four and a half hours" and only moved half a mile. |
| "We're trying to get in the campervan field but we're glad we've come today because we think it's going to be even worse tomorrow," he said. | "We're trying to get in the campervan field but we're glad we've come today because we think it's going to be even worse tomorrow," he said. |
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| Others took to social media to vent their frustrations, Angela Gibbon tweeted: "7 hours in the queue now...so near yet so far away!". | |
| Emily Dyson said: "Stuck in #glastonburytraffic - been still for over an hour.". | |
| Steve Saunders posted a shot of the roadside saying: "This is a view of a hedge we've had for a hour. It's a beaut!" while Patrick Dear tweeted: "Talking about necessary survival plans now - which of us to eat first." | |
| 'Going to have to wait' | |
| Mr Eavis said he was "sorry for the delay" but the problem was because "people were coming before the gates were open". | |
| "We did ask people to postpone their trip by about six or seven hours but instead of that - funnily enough - more people have come early this time," he said. | |
| "I don't mind them coming early but they're going to have to wait because we don't have the staff or the car parks until 8 o'clock in the morning." | |
| The music starts on Friday with Muse, Adele and Coldplay all headlining the main Pyramid stage. Other acts include Jeff Lynne's ELO, Earth Wind & Fire, Ronnie Spector, Art Garfunkel, Madness, Squeeze and New Order. |