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Music festival tickets go missing

Pete Doherty, one of the acts headlining
Pete Doherty is among the acts headlining the two-day event

Music festival tickets worth more than £60,000 have gone missing.

The 1,000 briefs for Live at Loch Lomond disappeared when they were being couriered from Ticketmaster's Glasgow base to its Manchester dispatch centre.

Festival organisers have contacted the police and are warning music fans not to buy tickets from unofficial sources.

About 30,000 people are due to attend the festival, which is now in its second year. It takes place at Balloch Castle Country Park on 2 and 3 August.

A further 600 tickets for a separate show by the Dutch DJ Tiesto are also missing.

'Extremely upset'

The Sex Pistols, Happy Mondays, Groove Armada and Pete Doherty are among the acts headlining at Loch Lomond.

Festival organiser Ricky Magowan said: "With only a fortnight to go until this year's Live at Loch Lomond, we are extremely upset that the tickets have gone missing.

"We are urging fans not to buy tickets unless they are from one of our official ticket outlets listed on our website.

"They would be wasting their money and will be turned away by security if they try and present the ticket at the event.

"We are hopeful that the missing tickets are recovered and are working with Ticketmaster and Strathclyde Police to try and get to the bottom of it."

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