Glastonbury queue: We've been here a very long time

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Alice and Alex in the car

Glastonbury festival says it's now "fully open for business", after people were told to stay away earlier.

Bad weather this morning made traffic around the site pretty terrible, but organisers say the queues are back to normal.

Well over a hundred thousand people are heading to the famous farm in Somerset, to see Adele, Muse and Coldplay.

But some people who got up early, like Alice and her friend Alex, didn't make much progress.

"We left Taunton at 10 to seven," Alice told Newsbeat at midday, "And we're still in the car."

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The festival sent out a tweet this morning, warning people who'd not set off yet to stay home for the moment

"We're about eight miles away from the site, but just in front of us is a row of traffic that's not moving at all.

"I think we've moved about a mile in an hour and a half."

But, luckily, Alice says British people embraced doing what they do best: queuing.

"It's actually a very friendly queue - quite a lot of people have been opening up their houses.

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An impromptu game of "queue cricket"

"There was a church down the road that was doing tea and coffee and toast and toilet breaks for everyone.

"Everyone's been quite happy and chatting to each other, getting out of their car and stretching their legs, so it's a nice atmosphere actually."

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Some people have made it to the site... and it's a bit muddy

"We've seen some pictures of the campsites online.

"So I don't know whether we should be happy to be in the queue, because the site itself looks like a puddle."

"But we've got our wellies, so we're good to go!"

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