31. Festival boss vows to make 2009 safer

A ‘spotter’ in the crowd to notice potential surges, increasing the spill-out area of the main stage and ensuring a one-way entry/exit system for the toilets are among safety issues Reading Festival boss Melvin Benn has vowed to address.

32. Music and mayhem

This year’s 20th Reading Festival went with a bang – quite literally.

33. Dodgy tickets and dizzy fans kick off

Hoards of welly-clad youngsters? Check. Nightmare traffic? Check. Early morning boozing? Check. Yes, it’s that time of year again – the Reading Festival is here.

34. Hoosiers excited to play Rivermead

Alfonso Sherland isn’t Worried About Ray – or anything else for that matter.

35. Video: Thousands watch loo block blaze on web

Swarms of festival-goers stand round a toilet block as it explodes in a fireball, while it is recorded on video.

36. ‘That’s the Way to save my dad’

Daddy’s girl Pippa Way is closer to her father than ever before – now that she has saved his life.

37. Close encounters of the Wokingham kind

38. DVD Review: My Sister’s Keeper (12)

My Sister’s Keeper, based on a novel by Jodi Picoult, stars Hollywood glamour girl Cameron Diaz and child-star Abigail Breslin.

39. DVD: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (12)

The problem with Harry Potter films is they all blur into one. There have been so many now – never as good as the books – so one becomes two, or is that three? And so on.

40. 'I was nearly blinded by ketchup pranksters'