Amicus chief Derek Simpson flew into the Glastonbury festival via helicopter to canvas views of the music-loving revellers on how to build the “trade union of tomorrow”.
Simpson, who promised a “no frills” leadership on his appointment, arrived in glamorous style at the event on a mission to collect “a blitz of new and exciting ideas from people of non-traditional union backgrounds”.

Ideas and suggestions collected by the trade union chief have not yet been disseminated to the press but hopefully Simpson steered clear of fans of the Chemical Brothers, Chicks on Speed or Loopaloon and Atomic Hooligan.

Mind you, he was probably one of the few at the festival old enough to remember headline acts Paul McCartney and James Brown before they needed Zimmer frames to get to the stage.