By James Drakeford: Sunday was more our bag of tricks, with a varied crowd of young and old present. It was only perhaps marred by the bizarre booking throughout the day.

We arrived at the festival on time only to find that the main stage had started early and we missed Tommy Scott and the Red Scarf, which was disappointing given that he joined us in the press pit during Shaun William Ryder and seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

By James Drakeford: If Carlsberg did music festivals… No, actually, if Pimms did music festivals it would probably be something a little like Chester Rocks.

It was something of a culture shock to exchange the sniffer dogs and security searches at student festival Beach Break Live in South Wales a couple of weeks ago in favour of Chester Racecourse where Cheshire ice cream, a Moet bar, and a Pimms stand greeted you upon your civil arrival for Chester Rocks on a glorious Saturday afternoon.

By James Drakeford: Eight hours of motorway driving, counting endless sheep, and mind-numbing attempts at pronouncing the road signs passed by and finally we arrived at what could have been mistaken as ‘the arse end of nowhere’.

We had arrived at Pembrey County Park for the fifth instalment of Beach Break Live. The British equivalent of America’s Spring Break. 20,000 students raving it up at the Dragon’s Den endorsed festival which marks the end of the exam period and the start of summer; four glorious days of music, sun and sand in the South of Wales.

StaffsLive will be taking a break over the summer period while we recharge our batteries and refresh the site.

We’ve enjoyed another year of top stories and great reporting from our journalism students.

But don’t forget to check back in September to see more great work from journalists at Staffordshire University.

The football season is over, the exam period has finished, and another year of university life has flown by. Students all across the country will be soaking up the summer sun and tanning it up on beaches across Europe, while others will mark the summer donning the wellies and trudging through mud in trademark fashion at the vast range of great British music festivals.

This summer Staffs Live reporter James Drakeford will continue to bring you all the action from some of the country’s leading festivals, starting this weekend with Beach Break Live.

By Holly Patel: Student Richie Skelding was so impressed with the nightclub where he worked at to make ends meet, he ended up owning it!

The Manchester Metropolitan University graduate was studying sport and exercise science when he took a door security job at Steam in Crewe.

By Jonathan McCormack: It was not the happy ending to the fairytale journey that Stoke fans had hoped for.

Yaya Toure’s scrambled goal sent the Potters home without a trophy once again.

But while the team’s performance left a lot to be desired, the fans once again stepped up and showed why the Britannia is the noisiest stadium in the Premier League.

By Sandy Wagg: Hanley’s Fat Cat Cafe Bar was taken over by a vintage fair which took place on both of its floors.

The bar opened up its venue to a number of vintage companies.

There was a colourful mix of clothes, shoes, bags, hand-made jewellery and paintings for people to buy.