We caught up with a couple of the soul circle gang who performed this little acoustic number about fruit.

We caught up with Sabrina Piggott as she performed an angelic number for us in the spoon carving tent!

We caught up with Chickenshop Shakespeare as they performed a scene from Romeo and Juliet, infront of unsuspecting festival goers and curious cats.

Enjoy. We did.

Part 2 coming next week.

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Yorkshire's two air ambulances in action over The White Horse on Sutton Bank

It costs £7,200 a day to run the Yorkshire Air Ambulance service – a small price to pay to keep its two life-saving rapid-response helicopters in the air.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) was founded in 2000 and serves a population of five million people living across almost 6,000 square miles. So far it has rescued 4,170 patients, often from remote rural areas. It’s ability to avoid traffic jams and uneven road surfaces is vital in cases of major trauma such as head or spinal injuries.

Surprisingly, this invaluable public service isn’t actually funded by public money. The YAA is an independent charity, relying on donations and fundraising efforts from individuals and organisations to survive. The latest of these takes place tomorrow (Saturday), as part of Huddersfield Town football club’s ongoing Keep It Up Campaign, which has raised £200,000 for the YAA since 2009. The only form of Government funding the charity receives comes indirectly, through the secondment of paramedics from the NHS.

It seems incredible, then, that the YAA is forced to pay the Government £5,800 a year in VAT duty on the 170,000 litres of fuel needed to keep its two helicopters airborne. Apparently, this is because of EU tax legislation. Yet the equally essential, charity-run Lifeboat Service has long been exempt from VAT duty.

Last month, a cross-party delegation of Yorkshire MPs tabled a motion in Parliament calling on the Government to bypass the red tape and return these VAT payments to the YAA in the form of grants. There seems to be no decent reason why the Coalition couldn’t do this for all 20 of the UK’s air ambulance services. You can sign an e-petition by clicking HERE if you so wish.

A patient is transferred from a YAA helicopter after it lands on a helipad at Leeds General Infirmary

I knew next to nothing about the work of the YAA until my dad was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary from Ripon Racecourse in October 2010. He had suffered a heart attack while out on his weekly bike ride. The winding 18-mile journey would have taken a good 40 minutes by road, even in an ambulance. According to his surgeon, by this time the damage to my old man’s ticker would probably have been irreversible. As it happened, he was on the operating table in 10 minutes flat and – thanks to the YAA – is still here to tell the tale.

Given the day-to-day running costs of the YAA, a saving of £5,800 a year might not seem much in the grand scheme of things. But it could mean the difference between life and death – maybe even for somebody you know.

- Walk For Pounds, a 28-mile sponsored walk from The Galpharm Stadium, in Huddersfield, to Gigg Lane, in Bury, takes place tomorrow. A sponsored 10k run around Huddersfield town centre takes place on Sunday March 18th. To find out more about Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the Keep It Up Campaign, or to make a donation, visit www.yorkshireairambulance.org.uk/kiucampaign/