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Glastonbury Festival 2016
Glastonbury Festival is underway and the music has begun. Crowds have braved the mud for the festival, which runs until Sunday
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Michael Eavis performs Elvis Karaoke
Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis wowed the Thursday night crowds at Worthy Farm by performing karaoke.
It's something he's been known to do in recent festivals and this year he took on an Elvis Presley classic - 'Can't Help Falling In Love'.
The moment was recorded on Periscope by a festivalgoer. You can catch it her
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Latest from the Glastonbury Festival queues
Glastonbury Festival has tweeted this warning to people queuing to come on site.
It follows long queues earlier today, after mud caused problems accessing the festival site at Pilton, although some late sunshine quickly dried much of the ground.
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Emily Eavis apologises for festival traffic congestion
Emily Eavis has apologised for the traffic congestion as thousands of people try to get onto the Glastonbury Festival site.
David Warburton, MP for Somerton and Frome took to social media to say the traffic was worse than it had been for years, while a school in Shepton Mallet posted on Twitter that all it's teachers had finally arrived at school by 10:30am.
Festival traffic congestion improving
Organisers of Glastonbury Festival say the 'picture if improving', although there is still heavy traffic congestion around the Glastonbury Festival site. The advice remains to delay your journey to the site today.
Some people have reported it taking up to 14 hours to get onto the site this morning, while others say it's taken them just a couple.
Local farmers tow caravans and campervans on site
Local farmers are being recruited to get traffic onto the Glastonbury Festival site. Heavy rain over a prolonged period has caused localised flooding and muddy fields at the festival.
Tractor drivers are now helping to tow caravans and camper vans on the fields on the east of the site.
Some school buses cancelled in Glastonbury traffic
Organisers of Glastonbury Festival say the site is now fully open but to expect the usual queues. But the traffic congestion is still causing trouble for people trying to get about their daily business. Somerset County Council say some school buses have been cancelled but they are trying to keep parents updated with contingency plans.
Those people who have got on to the Glastonbury Festival site are now trying to get their belongings through the mud:
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Glastonbury gallery - the first full day of festival
A selection of images from Glastonbury Festival where the music has begun and weird and wonderful things are going on