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Glasto success for Openreach
Friday July 18th 2008. Posted: 09:00
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The Openreach Glastonbury group - from left, Steve George, Andy Moxham, Martin Holloway, Rich Mayes, Gary Brook and Dave Coffee
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From rock to rap, comedy to cabaret and everything in between, this year’s Glastonbury Festival was a feast of entertainment. And Openreach engineers again played their part to turn farmland into a fitting venue for some of the world's top performers.
But long before thousands of festival-goers arrived, engineers Dave Coffee, Gary Brook, Steve George, Andy Moxham and team coach Richard Mayes were at Worthy Farm, Pilton, doing the work that helps make the festival a communications success story. Additional work was done by private circuit engineers Matt Harkness and John Miller and planning officer Iain Bissell, who organised the installation of around 40 poles used as communications masts on the site. They put in more than 160 lines on the 1,000-acre site for organisations including the BBC, Lloyds Bank and the police. Avon and Somerset constabulary again required extra circuits for temporary cells at the nearby Bath & West Showground. The Openreach team had help from senior management when recently appointed Severnside general manager Martin Holloway came down to visit. Martin helped arrange for an off-road vehicle for the engineers to use on site to help cope with the muddy conditions in the days leading up to the start of the festival. But the sun shone for much of the three-day event, which featured such names as KT Tunstall, Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Shakin’ Stevens and Neil Diamond.
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