More than 50,000 music fans are heading to the Isle of Wight for the first major festival of the summer, being headlined by Blur and Fleetwood Mac.

Other major acts taking to the stage during the four-day Isle of Wight Festival will be Happy singer Pharrell Williams, The Prodigy and The Black Keys.

Promoter John Giddings said it had taken seven years of negotiations to bring Fleetwood Mac to the event as part of their reunion tour, and he revealed the deal-clincher was the promise of the “biggest” helicopter to bring them to the site at Seaclose Park, Newport.

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