Michael Eavis wants to make Glastonbury 2008 the greenest ever. To that end, he’s announced a new travel scheme enabling festival-goers to buy coach tickets at the same time as they pay for their festival tickets, thus reducing car journeys and minimising the event’s overall carbon emissions.

Coaches will depart from London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Cheltenham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth, Southampton, Oxford, Cambridge, and Leicester. There will be multiple departures from each of these locations to the Festival site on Wednesday and Thursday mornings.

Coaches will leave the site and return to the above locations between 5am and 3pm on Monday. The full schedule and price from each location will be available from Seetickets.com when you purchase your tickets (having remembered, of course, to register first).

In other Glastonbury news, the site will also be bigger than ever this year.
"We've extended upwards into the hill to the level of the stones,” says Michael Eavis. "It will give people more room to walk around and also mean you can sit up there and have a view over the whole site from above."

[www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk]