Rain, rain, rain – what we gonna do?

It may come as no surprise that many parts of the United Kingdom had more rain in one day this week than they would have had in a month. Certainly the 55,000 fans at the Isle of Wight have had a muddy and wet time, and and organiser John Gidddins has apologised for the chaos and  promised that lessons would be learned for future years. Mr Giddings said that he was working with the police and the local council to create a plan to help people get away from the festival as easily as possible after Bruce Springsteen closes the event this evening. This involves more than 100 4×4 vehicles being on duty in the car parks to help tow stuck vehicles out and extra police officers being drafted in to help

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Rain, rain, rain – what we gonna do?

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