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Hungry Reading and Leeds festival-goers will be given free breakfast and beer at this year's August event.

Weekend ticket-holders will be entitled to a breakfast bap and beer on each day of the festival, which takes place on 24-26 August. Melvin Benn of festival republic had previously promised a beer and burger offer - but has now scaled back the offer slightly.

"Beer and Burger (B&B) has become Beer and Breakfast Bap (B&BB). Of course it was never intended to be only beer as soft drinks were always going to be on offer and that will remain," says Benn. "The mechanics are simple. For the food element every weekend ticket holder will receive their food vouchers at the same time as their ticket, with a per day voucher that can be redeemed at specially created 'Food for Campers' locations in the campsite, offering either a bacon, sausage or a scrambled egg and mushroom bap."

Revealing the specifics of the collection process, he continued.

"The breakfast bap will be available between 7am and 12 noon Friday, Saturday and Sunday and only the voucher for that specific day can be redeemed. Although no sponsor has come forward to support this in any real way our pals at Heinz have been kind enough to donate enough sauce to make us all very happy!"

"The beer is even easier! As you walk out of wristband exchange for the first time a team of festival volunteers will be waiting to give every weekend wristband holder a bag with three cans of beer or soft drinks, one for each of the music days. What's even better is that the bag is a recycling bag, which you can fill with empty cans to get even more free beer! It's on us so I hope you enjoy it!"

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