Fans will need to rush to get tickets for the 2025 season to avoid disappointment as the following event is unlikely to be before 2027. Explaining the reason for the break, festival co-organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC's Sidetracked podcast, "We are due a fallow year. The fallow year is important because it gives the land a rest, and it gives the cows a chance to stay out for longer and reclaim their land.” "I think it's important, I think it gives everybody time to just switch off and the public as well.”
The rate has risen to 4.4%, official figures show, the highest figure since September 2021.
France's snap parliamentary elections are negative for the country's credit score, ratings agency Moody's has warned. "This snap election increases risks to fiscal consolidation," Moody's said in a statement late on Monday, describing it as "credit negative" for the country's Aa2 rating, which is one notch above Fitch and S&P Global's equivalent score.