Glasto fan gets dying wish as £15,000 is raised to fly him there

A GLASTONBURY superfan with only weeks to live hopes to attend for a final time this weekend after more than £15,000 was raised to fly him 250 miles to the festival by helicopter.

Nigel Stonehouse, 58, pictured, has kidney cancer which has spread to his lungs. Doctors say it is incurable. Friends launched an online appeal so he can enjoy his ‘favourite place on Earth’ before he dies. Backers have included Fatboy Slim, who is among the musicians performing.

Fundraising organiser Lizzie Beggs said it was Mr Stonehouse’s ‘dying wish’ to be with all his friends at Glastonbury ‘even if only for a few hours for one last time’. If he is well enough, the former bricklayer from Hartlepool will be flown from the University Hospital of North Tees, where he is a patient, to Somerset. He will be in the care of a nurse, while a family who live near the site have offered to put him up.

Friend Gemma Thornton said: ‘This has given him a big boost. It’s the only thing keeping him going.’