This story didn’t make the front pages today:
Soldier dies on birthday beside twin brother after Iraq ambush
· Corporal killed protecting his men, says commander
· Friends say victim was set to propose to girlfriendAlexandra Topping
Monday June 25, 2007
The GuardianA British soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Basra while his twin brother was nearby was the “most talented corporal of his generation”, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.
Corporal John Rigby, of the 4th Battalion The Rifles, was injured during an explosion near Basra Palace on Friday and died later in a field hospital. His brother, William Rigby, who served in the same battalion, was at his side when he died and will accompany his body home. It was their 24th birthday.
This did make the front pages, and not just the front pages, but the entire BBC output for the weekend:
Almost 180,000 people are thought to have headed to Eavis’s farm to revel in the music, dance, poetry, politics and alternative therapies at the festival that started in the 1970s as a hippy haven for music and flower power in the rural hills of south-west England.
As well as The Killers, British singer Lilly Allen was a highlight of Saturday’s line-up, with rock legends Iggy and the Stooges, music inspiration Paul Weller, The Guillemots and the Klaxons.
An afternoon gig by indie rock band The Bees left the crowd buzzing, with tracks including, appropriately, Wash in the Rain with the audience dancing as the heavens opened.
Some daubed their faces with mud like war paint.
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More than 1,200 people suffered sprains and bruises, mostly after losing their balance in the mud, with some needing hospital treatment.
