Tom Kerswill

Well it’s been a few days since I got back from Slovakia and the Czech republic, so I thought I’d assemble it all into some kind of account…

It all started off with a night in London… then off from Stansted to Brno, in the Czech republic, for the first night in Czech. Then a long train ride across the border to Slovakia, where I met up with Iwiss, Katke and Ivana and stayed in the slovak cottage. After a night in Puchov, we headed to the Pohoda festival, which featured Prodigy, Roots Manuva, Asian Dub Foundation, Roni Size and Garbage, amongst others…

Afterwards a day of chilling then travelling, and a late arrival in Prague. Then a day alone in Prague…

Before finally meeting up with loads of lovely people for the final days in Prague… and before I know it, back in England again, to the Funky Raw festival in Cornwall.

Thief ‘drinks’ work of art
An artist’s latest work – a bottle of melted Antarctic ice – may have been stolen and drunk by a thirsty thief.

Artist Wayne Hill filled a two-litre clear plastic bottle with melted ice to highlight global warming.

But the artwork, valued at £42,500, went missing while on display at a literary festival, reports the Scotsman.

Entitled Weapon of Mass Destruction, it vanished halfway through the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.

Mr Hill said: “It looked like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was on a plinth, labelled, described and in the programme of the whole festival.

“It was very, very clear what it was – a work of art.”

The work uses water taken from the threatened west Antarctic ice sheet, which is currently melting at the rate of 250 cubic kilometres a year, he said.

Mr Hill added: “Nobody has any idea what has happened to it. It was there and then it was gone.”