Abandoned wellies sent to Africa
Five tonnes of wellington boots discarded by revellers at Glastonbury Festival over recent years have been sent to Africa for farmworkers to wear.
Festival organiser Michael Eavis said he was delighted the mountain of welly boots had been found a new lease of life: “We’ve been keeping tonnes of them rather than put them into landfill and now the Africans are going to wear them, isn’t that great.”