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Glastonbury tickets show up on eBay Sellers attempt to foil new registration system 9 hours ago Tickets to this month's Glastonbury Festival are being sold on eBay, despite festival organisers' efforts to prevent ticket re-sales. For the first time this year, festival-goers' personal details and photographs appear on tickets to prevent them from being resold. But this hasn't stopped some individuals from trying to resell them on-line. Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis warned that people are "taking a huge risk buying those tickets." "I'm moving heaven and earth to stop it happening," he told BBC News. "I have people watching eBay so we will have their information." Eavis added that people who buy the second-hand tickets will not get into the festival. He admitted that he was disappointed with the quality of the photos on the tickets, but said it would improve in the future. "This is the first year of the technology and so it's a trial run for this year," he said. "In the long term the photography will improve." The sold-out Glastonbury Festival runs June 22-24. Headliners include the Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, The Killers and The Who. |
Elvis statue unveiled in Hawaii A life-sized statue of Elvis Presley has been unveiled in Hawaii at site of his famous 1973 concert. The King performed at the Neal Blaisdell Center, for a TV special 'Aloha From Hawaii'. The show was one of the first major concerts to be broadcast on television globally via satellite. More than a billion people watched the landmark event, one of three shows that Elvis performed in Hawaii throughout his career. Mayor of Honolulu Mufi Hannemann said at the ceremony "He was not a native son of our land, , but we adopted him as our own" The bronze statue was a gift from TV Land. |
Phil Spector Trial: Day 26 The trial of music producer Phil Spector continued today with a second day of testimony from criminologist Lynne Herold. After a day of recess, the court resumed today (June 21) as Herold went through further photographs taken at the crime scene, including the .38-caliber Colt Cobra that was found near the body of Lana Clarkson, who died from a single shot to the head. Spector is charged with murder of the actress at his mansion in 2003. The defense team is saying she shot herself. Today Herold said the raised surfaces of the gun appeared to have been wiped of blood, but that it was impossible that Clarkson could have smeared the blood herself. Herold also pointed out a "mottling" on the gun which she described as similar to the effect of a moist cloth being wiped over a stainless steel surface. "In general, blood has been moved or removed" she stated, and the only other person in the house at the time was Spector. The defense team is expected to argue that Spector was trying to help Clarkson after the shooting. |
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