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Camp Bestival Shropshire: Faithless and Paloma Faith lead line-up

Rebecca Woods
BBC News, West Midlands
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Paloma Faith will make her Camp Bestival debut in Shropshire later this year

Faithless, Paloma Faith, McFly and Rick Astley will headline this year's Camp Bestival in Shropshire, organisers have announced.

The family festival will be held at Weston Park for the third time from 15 to 18 August.

Orbital, The Darkness and Scissor Sisters star Jake Shears are also among the line-up.

Festival curator Rob Da Bank said Wednesday's announcement was "just for starters".

The festival, which has been running at its sister site at Lulworth Estate in Dorset since 2008, has dozens of attractions for all the family.

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It will be the third time the festival is staged at Weston Park, former home of the V Festival

This year, visitors to Shropshire can enjoy parkour and free-running, football, synchronised swimming and wall-climbing.

Rob da Bank said Faithless's live appearance was one of only two festival shows they had planned in 2024.

Level 42, Sarah Cox, Gok Wan and Craig Charles will also be taking to the stage, along with festival favourites the Cuban Brothers, Big Fish Little Fish and Junior Jungle.

For the youngest attendees, TV favourites Mr Tumble and Mister Maker are among a string of children's stars who will perform over the weekend.

Tickets go on general sale from Friday 2 February.

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The event has a sister site in Dorset, which holds its festival a few weeks earlier
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