Hundreds queue for V Festival tickets

More than 700 music fans queued overnight while thousands more jammed phone lines today in the rush to snap up tickets for the V Festival.

Tickets worth £175 were appearing on ebay for double their value within minutes of booking lines opening. All 90,000 tickets were set to be sold out by this afternoon.

Fans, many armed with tents and sleeping bags, took over Queen Square in Wolverhampton city centre from 9.15pm last night.

The city's Midland Box Office opened at 9am.

Students from North East Wolverhampton Academy were the first in the queue.

Rhiannon Davies, Olivia Hynes, Bradley Wright, Connor Edwards, all 16, and 17-year-old Jordan Lovell, all from Bushbury, queued for 12 hours, spending the night huddled around a heater in a small tent.

Rhiannon said: "It was freezing but we didn't want to risk staying in and trying to buy tickets online because the computer might have frozen or crashed."

Apprentice plumber Kelsey Pugmore, aged 18, said: "I finished worked at Indi Bar at 2am and came straight here to queue."

The two-day Weston Park extravaganza on August 20 and 21 will be headlined by Rihanna and Eminem.

Civic Halls marketing manager Crissie Rushton said: "It was crazy. We sold our allocation by 12.30pm."