Police struggle to close down overnight rave on airfield - The Times

Police were battling today to close down an illegal rave attended by more than 3,000 people on a former RAF base, that started yesterday.

Residents in the Bath area described being woken by “loud, thumping music around 5am” instead of church bells ringing across the Swainswick Valley after thousands of people flocked to the former RAF base Charmy Down in Somerset last night.

Avon and Somerset Police said that the force received the first report “of a potential unlicensed music event near Bath” at 11.21pm, but decided against intervening on public safety grounds because there were more than 3,000 people there and it was dark and wet.

After taking a decision to contain rather than close the event, officers were still struggling to shut it

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2020-07-19 17:00:00Z
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