It was the year pop took over the V Festival with a line-up packed full of chart-topping artists.

Olly Murs, whose new single Heart Skips A Beat, featuring Rizzle Kicks is out today – will play Birmingham’s LG Arena next February as part of a headline arena tour.

Here’s a way to enjoy the V Festival in style – if you have a few thousand pounds to spare. While tens of thousands slum it under canvas, a select few were today waking up in pop-up hotels and designer sheds.

It’s that time of the year again when for one weekend and one weekend only it’s cool to be seen wearing wellies, all thoughts of washing go out the window and around 85,000 music fans descend on Weston Park, writes Amy Burns. It can only be V Festival 2011.

Here’s the complete breakdown of the acts performing at Weston Park in Staffordshire for V Festival 2011.

The tickets whose temperatures send the mercury soaring are presently stuffed deep in the wallets and pockets of 85,000 fans from around the UK at V Festival, writes Wolverhampton Civic Hall’s Jonn Penney.

Miles of tailbacks snarled up major routes around Weston Park today as tens of thousands of music fans made their way to the V Festival.

As the clock counts down towards the start of the V Festival at Weston Park, Dawn Woodhouse, the festival’s co-ordinator talks to us about her perfect weekend and what goes on in the busy run-up to the epic annual two-day music event.

A man has been taken to hospital following a crash this morning.

The stage was today being set for this year’s V Festival – ready to welcome tens of thousands of music fans and some of the biggest acts in the industry.