Soggy summer spurned by Ramsbottom music fans

Rain? Pah! Rammy and its many admirers have just had a cracking festival weekend. Helen Nugent was thereIt is testament to the appeal of the Ramsbottom Festival that, after the soggiest summer in a century, this boutique Lancashire event attracted thousands of people who couldn't give a fig for the rain. Now in its second year, a celebration of music, poetry, comedy and food took over a little Northern town nestled in the shadow of the West Pennines. Steam trains on the East Lancashire heritage ...

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