Music festivals

2 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. The high-stakes lottery of the UK's biggest free music festivalHow do you give away 40,000 free tickets to a massive music festival without it becoming a chaotic free-for-all? BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend uses a sophisticated, postcode-weighted …
2. A 1985 police operation that became one of England's largest mass arrestsWhen a convoy of New Age travellers tried to reach Stonehenge in 1985, the resulting confrontation escalated into a scene of extreme violence. It remains a controversial flashpoin…

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