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The brothers Reid take part in Jarvis' Meltdown

Aw boo, it's over for another year, but hey wasn't it great mud-sliding fun! The Who closed the world's biggest music festival with a resounding greatest hits set, as the rain pounded down for one final time, it certainly didnt dampen Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey's spirits.

Just having a look through your recent comments while i wait for the troops to make it back from Glastonbury and Knowsley Hall. Thanks, as ever, for your comments; even Madison, who appears to have spammed the recent Richard And Linda Thompsonthread with a hunk of WB Yeats. Cheers for that.

As the sun sinks slowly into the west, we bid you a fond farewell from Knowsley Hall.

Our fearless Picture Editor May Starey has been out shooting the great unwashed. Here's a selection of her best pictures...

Ah, this is how you do it.

"She's not to blame!" sings one of Joss Stone's backing singers. Possibly she's exonerating her lead singer from the inclement weather, that's now reached torrential proportions. Looking at the waterlogged state of the fields round here, I suspect that it might not be the Mersey alone that you'll need a ferry to cross later this evening.

Have been for the final wander round the immense space that Glastonbury covers, the sound of Shirley Bassey as she performs on the main stage floats across the air...

Coming back to Knowlsey Hall today, Picture Editor May and I find a few things have changed...

It's quite a trudge up to the Pyramid Stage, so deep and sticky, but I don't mean to bore you with mud stories - Mike Scott's Waterboys have just finished their third performance at this year's Glastonbury festival...