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Campfires may be banned at Reading Festival
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 September 2009
After banning flags from this year’s Reading festival, the man in charge Melvin Benn may also put an end to campfires at next year’s event.
Benn was due to meet Reading West MP Martin Salter on Monday to discuss the matter, after the MP complained of “angry mobs running around [the festival’s campsite], stealing other people’s tents and possessions and throwing them on the bonfires to keep the fires burning. It’s a lethal cocktail, drunken young people, fires and insufficient security to deal with the situation”.
Salter added: “I am a supporter of the festival, I want it to be a great success, but I want it to be a safe event for young people as it always used to be”.
