A music festival has banned revellers using camping stoves at their tents and disposable barbecues anywhere on site due to the hot weather and “dry ground conditions” expected this weekend.<\/p>\n
Camp Bestival, which takes place from Thursday to Sunday at Lulworth Castle near the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, has instead introduced campsite cooking areas and free access to hot water.<\/p>\n
Organisers said they were working with Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service “to keep everyone safe”. Fireworks, flares, sparklers, lanterns and smoke canisters are among banned items., external<\/a><\/p>\n There have been several wildfires in the region this summer because of the hot, dry weather<\/a>. A drought was also declared on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n On 17 July, part of the Rustic Stomp festival near Wareham, Dorset, was destroyed by a fire that started when a camping stove set fire to a tent. An area of heathland measuring 100m (330ft) by 40m (130ft) was destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A music festival has banned revellers using camping stoves at their tents and disposable barbecues anywhere on site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}