Glastonbury Festival's tactics for managing crowds

Fewer tickets were sold this year to control the crowds at Glastonbury Festival

Organisers of the Glastonbury Festival reduced the number of tickets this year in order to give festival-goers more space.

The festival is always busy but with fewer people compared to last year, organisers hoped to make the experience more enjoyable.

They also added a new field called the Dragon's Tail so that the 200,000 revellers could spread out more across the Worthy Farm site.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said she thinks people "get around the site differently since Covid, tending to move more in a herd".

A worker said she feels the crowds are better managed this year

"It is still busy but I feel they have managed it in a way where the crowds are quite separated. The security and stewards direct people and they actually know where they're going this year," a woman working at an ice cream van on site told BBC Points West.

A festival goer said: "Last year actually was quite overwhelming. It felt too busy. It detracts from the festival a bit because you couldn't always get to where you wanted.

"It seems to be crushing less, they have more barriers in different places, so it's a lot more comfortable this year."

Sally Cordon has "never seen any trouble" at the festival

Sally Cordon, one of the stewards at the site, said they function as traffic control.

"We stand at the main junctions and basically make sure people don't get run over," she said.

"The lovely thing about this festival is that everybody just loves being here, I've not seen any trouble."