Glastonbury crime level at record low

This year’s Glastonbury Festival is on course for a record low level of crime and arrests.

There had been 40 arrests by 10am yesterday, compared with 72 in 2015, and 186 reported crimes, compared with 242 last year, Avon and Somerset Police said.

Some 114 of the reported crimes this year were thefts from tents.

The figures come as campers and revellers made their way home from the site, leaving behind tonnes of debris.

A major clean-up operation began yesterday, with 1,800 litter pickers scouring the grounds for rubbish.

The 135,000 festival-goers were expected to leave behind 500,000 sacks of rubbish, 57 tonnes of reusable items and 1,022 tonnes of recycling.