Delights like those in the Lost Vagueness field were at the centre of the festival in the 1980s, Michael Eavis said, and their return proved Glastonbury had not lost touch with its roots.

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The Californians are not the only researchers interested in what is effectively a massive dynamo at the centre of the planet driving the geomagnetic field.

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And Leeds' pressure told again just before half-time when the Rhinos switched play from one side of the field to the other before veteran centre Keith Senior got winger Hall over at the corner.

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John Archer-Thompson, of the Dale Fort Field Study Centre, explained that west Wales escaped a more serious disaster at the time of the Sea Empress spill.

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