Glastonbury bosses say that the festival is working closely with police to ensure that it is as safe as possible this summer following a rise in terrorist attacks in the UK.
Co-organiser and daughter of the festival's founder, Emily Eavis, assures festival-goers that the event organisers and police are working together to make sure that Glastonbury 2017 is 'the most safe [sic] place that it can possibly be'.
More than 150,000 people will descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset next week for the music and arts event.
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Emily Eavis, daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis, says that full effort is being put in to ensuring the safety of everyone in attendance.
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She told BBC 6 Music: "We have had a lot of security meetings in the last couple of weeks and our head of security, who is also in charge or the operations here, is incredibly experienced in this area so we have put in place lots of extra provisions and extra security checks.
"We have sent an email out to the public to let them know that coming in will take a bit of extra time this year because we are going to be doing extra searches and you will notice that on the way in, there will be extra space made for those searches to take place and some extra security and police."
She added: "We are working very closely with the police and we just want to make it as safe as possible and you can rest assured we have got the best team making sure that happens and that it's the most safe place that it can possibly be."
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Earlier this week it was announced that Johnny Depp and Liam Gallagher had also been added to the final line-up for Glastonbury 2017.
In 2016, many festival-goers were delayed when heavy rain hit the event site.
The adverse weather conditions led to festival chiefs telling revellers not to set off in cars, campervans or caravans to the site.
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Source: Birmingham Mail and BBC Radio 6 Music
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