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.

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 James Drakeford: John Parrott has been crowned Stoke’s Snooker Legend.

A packed crowd at Hanley’s Victoria Hall watched three world champions and a six-time runner-up showcase their talent in a two-frame tournament as part of the Snooker Legends tour.

By Louise Bawden: Stoke-On-Trent born Zoe Beresford says she will do what it takes to become Lord Alan Sugar’s next apprentice.

Zoe, from Arclid, near Sandbach, currently works for her family’s Cheshire-based drinks manufacturing business as a project manager.

By Anneka Masih: More than 100 film fans attended a special viewing of a film made by two Stoke-on-Trent production teams.

The Stoke-on-Trent companies screened their comedy feature film, Pulp, at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Vue cinema.

By James Drakeford: Work is underway to turn the stage at Hanley’s Regent Theatre into a 15 tonne ice rink.

The Imperial Ice Stars bring their award-winningSwan Lake on Ice show to Stoke-on-Trent tomorrow (May 10).

The two-year tour will visit 22 countries and the meticulous 36-hour process to build the ice rink – which involves two 45ft trucks, ten miles of pipe work and 2,500 litres of anti-freeze – began at 7am today.

By James Drakeford: With tickets for Slash’s homecoming gig selling out in less than two hours, one of his biggest fans has been left disappointed after missing out.

Staffordshire University grbaduate Nile Plumb, 22, has dedicated the last year of his life to a campaign he started to have statues of rock icons Slash and Motorhead singer Lemmy erected in Stoke-on-Trent.

What should be a dream come true has turned into a nightmare for Nile after he failed to secure pre-sale tickets and overslept when they went on general sale May 6.