Wireless Festival fans complain of overcrowding and safety fears

Fans at London’s Wireless Festival have raised concerns about overcrowding after reports of trampling and injuries at one of the stages. Thousands of people flocked to see rap duo D-Block Europe on the smaller of two stages at the Finsbury Park music festival, with several taking to social media to claim that people were being knocked over and that some were even “passing out”. Fadumo Mohamed, a 19-year-old student from north London, told PA that the crowding got so bad...

Stormzy had more people singing ‘F**k Boris’ live on BBC than are likely to make Johnson PM

Update: speaking after the Conservative Party’s leadership hustings in Carlisle, Boris Johnson insisted Stormzy was ‘thoroughly on message’, claiming he was actually singing ‘back Boris’ – his campaign slogan. He blamed ‘problems with the acoustics’ for the ‘misunderstanding’. Wearing a Union Jack stab jacket the South London rapper Stormzy was uncompromising as he became the first black British solo artist to headline Glastonbury. The 25-year-old from Croydon is also the first UK rapper to headline Glastonbury and paid tribute to...

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