Updated: 51 arrested at V Festival (From Southend Standard)
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Updated: 51 arrested at V Festival
9:47am Saturday 18th August 2012 in Echo News
FIFTY-ONE people attending this weekend’s V Festival have now been arrested for drugs offences.
Police swooped on suspected drug dealers and drug users at the annual music festival.
After 18 people were arrested on Friday before the entertainment had even begun, another 23 have been arrested on suspicion of offences ranging from supplying cocaine to possessing cannabis.