Saturday 29 August 2009

Creamfields dance festival in Daresbury


FAKE tickets could pose new headaches for police at this weekend’s Creamfields festival it was revealed.
Because the 60,000 tickets for the Bank Holiday weekend are now sold out the only time it has happened since 2000 officers from Cheshire Police are on red alert to catch those who try to get inside the Creamfields site in Daresbury with forged tickets.
Creamfields arrangers said there was grounds that fakes were still being sold by unauthorised online outlets.
Each ticket will be scanned at the entrances and those found to be forged will be forfeited and those carrying them will be declined entry.
A spokeswoman for Creamfields said: “The festival is sold out, so please don’t try and buy tickets from unofficial sources.
“If your ticket doesn’t scan, then you won’t get in and you’ll have lost out on over £100”.
Over 500 police officers will be on responsibility at the Halton site between Saturday and Monday for the longest event the force polices.
Rigorous searches will be in place at the entrances to forfeited any weapons and drugs after knuckle dusters and knives were forfeited last year.

Monday 24 August 2009

Drugs and weapons at Creamfields target to police


CHESHIRE Police will target festival goers carrying drugs and weapons at this year’s Creamfields.
The dance music pageant, which attracts 100,000 fans to Daresbury Park, takes place next weekend and officers are keen to make it a crime free accident.
Hundreds of police officers across the county, including the Western Rural unit, will patrol the two day festival and annual leave has been cancelled across the weekend.
Music fans and campers will be checked by sniffers dogs at the access to the site, as police target would be criminals.
Insp Giles Pierce said: "Searches are a condition of entry and drugs dogs will be used at the admittance to the site.
"Anyone found with drugs or weapons, having not placed them into the pordon bins which will be provided at the admittance to the access arena, will be dealt with by police.
"A number of measures have been put in place by the pressure to deal with any incidents of crime and derangement while the festival is in progress.
"Police will take positive action against anyone absorded on committing a crime, or being included in crime and disorder, so as to maintain the good nature of the event that we have seen in previous years. Police will also patrol the huge camping area surrounding the main arena.

Saturday 22 August 2009

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Monday 17 August 2009

Festival to finish at 0200h


A festival which will be held at the Gianpula nightclub on August 15 will have to finish by 0200h the next morning, after the Court turned down a request for an appeal to be heard with compulsion.
The Creamfields Malta festival, which is being held at the Gianpula Fields, limits of Rabat, was set to begin at 2000h and finish at 0400h.

However, the police only accepted the event to go on until 0200h, and an address filed at the police board of address was turned down. The police bureaucrat maintained that during the Moby concert, which was held in the same location on June 28, the police accepted a number of complaints from near by residents.

The club’s owner, Roger de Giorgio, took the case to Court, asking for the case to be heard with compulsion to accept for the event to last until 0400h in the event of a favourable Court decision.

This request was, however,abjure by Mr Justice Joseph Camilleri on Wednesday.

On the event’s website, the club’s arranger had already announced that the festival will now open 2 hours former, at 1800h, to attach to the permit.

“Due to circumstances beyond their control, the arranger would like to announce a change in this year’s Creamfields Festival schedule. The shift relates to a decision by local authorities to change their policies in respect to limit the permit of one-off events to 2 am,” the statement reads.
A festival which will be held at the Gianpula nightclub on August 15 will have to finish by 0200h the next morning, after the Court turned down a request for an address to be heard with compulsion.
The Creamfields Malta festival, which is being held at the Gianpula Fields, limits of Rabat, was set to begin at 2000h and finish at 0400h.

However, the police only accepted the event to go on until 0200h, and an appeal filed at the police board of appeal was turned down. The police commissioner maintained that during the Moby agreement, which was held in the same location on June 28, the police received a number of complaints from near by residents.

The club’s holder, Roger de Giorgio, took the case to Court, asking for the case to be heard with complusion to accept for the accident to last until 0400h in the event of a favourable Court decision.

This request was, however, denied by Mr Justice Joseph Camilleri on Wednesday.

On the event’s website, the club’s arranger had already announced that the festival will now open 2 hours earlier, at 1800h, to adhere to the permit.

“Due to circumstances beyond their control, the organisers would like to announce a change in this year’s Creamfields Festival schedule. The shift relates to a decision by local authorities to change their policies in respect to limit the permit of one-off events to 2 am,” the statement reads.

Saturday 8 August 2009

Creamfields festival returns in Daresbury


Creamfields festival returns to Daresbury there is now just one month
The Open Golf Championship celebrating beating on this festival, Tate Liverpool’s Klimt exhibition and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall to the title of ‘Tourism Event of the Year’ at the Mersey Partnership Tourism Awards 2009, an award Creamfields CEO James Barton described as an “amazing honour”.
Event manager Jim King praised Halton Borough Council for granting the licence continue to the festival its necessary.
He added : “We are looking forward to continuing the excellent working relationships with Cheshire Police and the local authority to ensure this year’s Creamfields is a success.”