T In The Park on the move after pipeline safety fears

SCOTLAND’S biggest music festival will move to a new venue after this year’s event, due to health and safety concerns.

Organisers of T In The Park have had to leave the current site at Balado, Kinross-shire, because of an oil pipeline which lies directly underneath the disused airfield.

Health and safety officials have warned that the consequences of an accident at the BP Forties pipeline during the event would be ‘catastrophic’.

DF Concerts, the organisers of the festival, are set to unveil their new location today. A bus leaving the King Tut’s music venue in Glasgow will take invited journalists to the new home of Scotland’s most popular summer event, which is thought to still be within the Perth and Kinross area.

T In The Park has been held at Balado, near Kinross, since 1997 and has hosted global stars including Beyonce, Robbie Williams and The Stone Roses.

Acts including Biffy Clyro, Calvin Harris and The Arctic Monkeys will play in front of 85,000 fans this year, from July 11 to 13.

A number of alternative locations have been tipped as its new home, including Loch Lomond and Stirling.

A festival insider: ‘It’s top secret but they’ve definitely made the decision on the new site.

‘Its very central, not too far from where they are now and easy for people to get to.’