Very good news about Cropredy. It's always been one of my favourite festivals. I've also just heard that both the Lancaster Maritime Festival and the Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival in Hampshire, both of which had been threatened with closure, are going ahead as normal in 2005. Meanwhile the people behind the Stroud Festival are rumoured to have some exciting plans for 2005. And Steve Heap appears to have got involved with the Beverley Festival and has thereby given that Festival a boost. There may still be problems and difficulties in Sidmouth but the scene elsewhere is looking very healthy right now.