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Fundraiser launched to send terminally ill Glastonbury veteran to this year’s festival

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Glastonbury festival.Nigel Stonehouse, 58, was diagnosed with kidney and lung cancer in May. He has been attending Glastonbury for the last 30 years, and was referred to by his friends as a “festival veteran”.

He was set to attend this year’s edition of Glastonbury this week, but has become unable to travel without medical assistance.Friends of Stonehouse – a former bricklayer from Hartlepool – launched a GoFundMe campaign over the weekend, looking to raise funds to transport him by helicopter from North Tees hospital to the festival grounds at Pilton, Somerset. “In the last week, Nige has taken a sudden turn and has been told that not only is his cancer incurable, but it is progressing fast and is aggressive,” the campaign description reads. “Nige was planning to be with us all at Glastonbury next week, and he has made it his dying wish to make it there, even if only for a few hours for one last time.“The palliative care team suggested commissioning a helicopter to get him there and back… We are asking that anyone who is able, makes a donation no matter how small to try and help us make this happen… we want to move heaven and earth to get him there.

It would mean the world to Nige and to all who love him.”Organisers finished their call for aid by stipulating that should Stonehouse ultimately be too unwell to travel, funds will be donated to charities associated with Glastonbury.The effort has garnered the attention of some prominent names in music.

Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook), who will perform at this year’s festival, wrote on Twitter: “[Stonehouse is] so poorly with cancer they’re going to have to fly him in by air ambulance.

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