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Music fans have begun setting up camp at the Glastonbury Festival after the gates opened for this year's event.

While the main stages do not open until Friday, many smaller venues put on live music, DJs and films for those arriving early.

The first performer on the official line-up is flautist Frei Zinger, on the Croissant Neuf Bandstand at 11:00 BST.

There will then be entertainment in the circus field, Groovy Movie Picture House and many of the dance arenas.

Some 177,000 people are due on site during the weekend. Tickets, costing £225, sold out in 26 minutes last October.

But the weather is not expected to be as bad as 2014, when performances were halted due to a lightning storm. According to BBC Weather, there will be some light showers on Friday morning and on Sunday.

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To mark the event, Legoland has set up its own mini-Glastonbury scene - complete with Pyramid stage.

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The rain has arrived at Glastonbury.

Stephen Hawking has had to cancel his appearance at Glastonbury festival.

The renown physicist was due to give a talk on Friday 26 June at the Worthy Farm Kidz Field.

“For personal reasons Stephen Hawkins will not be able to visit Glastonbury this year,” said a spokesperson for Cambridge University.

Glastonbury officials had been coy about the exact timings of Hawking's talk and it has been widely speculated that he was likely to cancel, amid speculation over possible ill-health.

The Libertines are playing Glastonbury Festival after being revealed as the "secret" guests who are performing before Florence and the Machine.

They are filling the gap that was left vacant when Florence was moved replace Foo Fighters in the headline slot.

Organisers had tried to keep the identity of the the guests secret, but Pete Doherty and Carl Barat's indie band posted confirmation on Instagram.

Last we tuned in to Bert Bacharach's live concert, and to hear him sing "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" made us laugh, for at that moment it was not Raining, of which Glastonbury is famous for bad weather.

Lionel Richie has drawn the biggest crowd of this year's Glastonbury Festival, with at least 100,000 people estimated to have watched the singer.
The Pyramid Stage field was packed to see the star play hits like Dancing on the Ceiling, Hello and Say You Say Me.
Richie took the event's traditional Sunday afternoon "legend" slot.

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Have you ever wondered what happens to the wellies left behind at Glastonbury every year?

Thousands of Wellington boots are abandoned at Worthy Farm, which in past years used to end up in landfill sites.

But now a couple of entrepreneurs and charities have been working to change that.

We followed one charity who ships the boots out to Romania to give them to people who themselves live on a landfill site.