Mud at Glastonbury festival - in pictures
Glastonbury is not even properly under way and already the mud is everywhere. With traffic also a problem, police warned festivalgoers to delay travel to the site
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Let the fun begin. Clean festivalgoers arrive at Worthy Farm. Around 180,000 are expected to attend.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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Heavy rain over a prolonged period has caused isolated flooding and muddy fields at the Somerset site.
Photograph: PA
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These stylish ponchos should last the distance.
Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
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Aha! He’s done this before.
Photograph: PA
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Revelling in the British summer. Hands off, Eurocrats!
Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
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Adele arrives in style.
Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
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Festival veterans had a sense of foreboding.
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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Camping on the path is not permitted.
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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Are we having fun yet?
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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Rescuers arrived with essential beer supplies.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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Darn those smug deluxe wheelbarrow owners.
Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian
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Strong in arm and green in welly, the doughty campers continued to arrive.
Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian
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Working together, for the glory of Coldplay.
Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian
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No no no no no.
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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