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Reading Festival is still affected by the recent flooding, and now organisers have issued a statement informing festival goers of the situation.

Building of the festival site started on 25th July, when much of the site was still underwater from the flooding this summer. Now, with the festival approaching this weekend, 24th August, the changes to the campsites have been released.

The official statement reads:

The main change is that some camping will move to the Orange Campsite. The drop off point will remain but there will be no parking in this area now.

The main parking will now be in White. If you park there we strongly advise also camping there. We have increased the boat service from White and this should be a swift way into the main site. On Wednesday and Thursday, the boat will only drop at Brown to keep things moving as people get on site. From Friday, the boats will go to Brown but also to Green to make the walk to the arena shorter.

Regarding the other campsites:
Red is fine
Green A is ok and parts of Green F, G and H but the rest of Green will not be usable
Yellow will be open in the main but parts may be boggy.
Brown will also be ok but with some unusable areas.
White is 90% usable.

We are resigning all approaches to the event to reflect the changes if you are driving although we advise everyone to use British Rail and National Express where possible.

And, the most important bit is that the Arena is fine.

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