In Video and Pictures: UK: Wild Weather leaves Revelers
Swamped in a sea of mud: Traffic jams and soggy tents as
downpours hit Isle of Wight New Age festival
- Organiser promises to give
refunds for unused tickets as queues leave 600 stranded on
ferries across the Solent
- Lifeboat had to
rescue people who decided to sail across storm-lashed
Solent to
reach the Isle of Wight New Age Festival
- Heavy rain to batter
Britain as month's worth of rain predicted to fall in just
24 hours
- North West alone has 28
flood alerts in place with severe weather warnings for Greater Manchester,
Merseyside and Lancashire
- England's one-day cricket
international against West Indies rained off
PUBLISHED:
07:54 GMT, 22 June 2012
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UPDATED:
16:03 GMT, 24 June 2012
They may have expected to go
without showers for three days – but they probably didn’t
realise they would have to take a mud bath instead.
Revellers at the Isle of Wight
New Age festival found themselves soaked and stranded as
torrential rain turned the site into a quagmire.
But the ones who had made it to
the chaotic campsite were considered lucky by others who were
left sleeping in their cars as traffic jams brought the island
to a standstill.