 | | Preparations for Glastonbury 2007 are underway |
Normally around this time of year, festival-goers in a Somerset village are knee-deep in mud, barely able to hear themselves speak over the sounds of the likes of Coldplay. But in June 2006, if you take a trip to Worthy Farm, home of the Glastonbury Festival, you find it's a lot quieter. There is no Glastonbury 2006 - so there are no tents and no hundreds of thousands of people camping in the fields around Pilton. So what does it mean to the local community when Glasto takes a year off? The BBC's Chief Somerset Correspondent, Clinton Rogers, has been to Worthy Farm to find out: Glastonbury 2005 grossed around £16 million, much of which finds its way into the local economy.  | | Clinton Rogers is a Glastonbury stalwart |
In a year when the streets of the village of Pilton have fallen quiet, Mendip District Council is commissioning a study to find out how much the economy is losing. Glasto has had its critics down the years, but it's also had its beneficiaries. On average, it gives £150,000 to local causes a year - these range from the village school to carnival clubs, who rely on it as one of their main fundraisers. Paul Lund has chatted to villagers about what it is like in Pilton, in what farmer Michael Eavis describes as a "fallow year": | 
