Opinion
Leader: Festival brings town alive 
Published: Thu, 28th Aug 12:00PM
THE READING Chronicle website has this week been inundated with contributions from people who had a bad experience at this year’s Reading Festival.
We cannot ignore these grievances. To have been caught in the stampede as tickets went on sale last Wednesday must have been genuinely terrifying. And to have been scammed by unscrupulous ticket websites – having paid all that money, planned your itinerary to the last second, met with friends, and mapped out a whole weekend of sheer joy – must have been a terrible disappointment.
Comment
The BBC overpays its presenters, scams us, and we pay for it
THE BBC has been fined £400,000 for serial cheating on its phone-in lines. The broadcast and newspaper headlines were unanimous, and utterly wrong.
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THEY call it the greatest show on earth and, with all due respect to Barnum & Bailey, and forgetting for a minute the inevitable drug cheats and the crude commercialism, in sporting terms it probably is.
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THE ordeal of an unavoidable shopping expedition into the jungle that is Reading town centre is never for the faint-hearted.
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