Picture special: Reading Festival 2016

Staff reporter

11:57AM, Tuesday 30 August 2016

Thousands of people descended on Little Johns Farm in Reading at the weekend as one of the country's biggest music festivals returned.

Headline acts including Foals, Disclosure, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy took to the main stage at the three-day Reading Festival.

They were joined by a host of big-name acts across the weekend, including Imagine Dragons, Nas, the 1975, Duke Dumont and the Vaccines.

Our photographer Ian Longthorne has captured dozens of incredible images from the festival. Check out our photo gallery above.

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Anne Sweeney almost saw an accident happen between a child crossing the road and a car at the junction of the A4 and All Saints Avenue, Maidenhead

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(136947) MIKE - SX 2025 A Level Results Upton Court Grammar School, Students checking results - Pictures by Mike Swift

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Various location. roundabout ipainted with St George’s flag. Roundabouts in Maidenhead, Cox Green and Woodlands Park

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(136961) MIKE - MA 2025 GCSE Results Cox Green School - Benedictcha Nsiah-Boateng with friend (L) Emily Bowley and (R) Maisie Dale-Gough - Pictures by Mike Swift

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Joanna Dickinson will run The Lovely Vintage & Antiques Fair at Lillibrooke Manor on October 5th.

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Taplow roundabout by Sainsbury's + J7 Roundabout Bath Road, Slough The Union Jack and St George’s flag on roundabouts

Parents of people with special needs who attend a day centre in Burnham are up in arms that the council is proposing to close the day centre. inc parents,cllrs, parish cllrs Burnham Short Breaks Day Service. Minniecroft Road, Burnham, Slough SL1 7DE.

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There was a large crash at the Braywood Memorial Hall last week. Residents are renewing their calls for some kind of change at the junction, and there’s damage to the hall.

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Man stabbed outside Reading's Purple Turtle

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A shocked kebab van owner is said to be ‘devastated’ after a fire tore through his van. Crews from Wargrave and Wokingham Road were called to fight the blaze which gutted the Dilara kebab van, parked in the grounds of Hare Hatch Sheeplands in London Road, on Wednesday last week. They were unable to salvage the van which was completed destroyed and police have yet to rule out arson. The family live in Reading but have asked not to be named.