Delivery man advertises 200,000 loo rolls after Boardmasters cancellation

A toilet delivery man listed 200,000 loo rolls for sale after Boardmasters Festival was cancelled over safety fears.

Around 50,000 music fans were due to arrive this week for the event, which had booked acts including Wu Tang Clang, Florence and the Machine, Foals and Lewis Capaldi.

But with many already in Newquay, Cornwall, after travelling from across the UK, organisers said they had no option but to cancel the event at the eleventh hour.

And with an empty site and no demand for his product Nick Smith, director at NRS Transport, says he has now been left with a mountain of unneeded toilet rolls.

Pictured: The empty scene at Boardmasters festival in Newquay yesterday following the cancellation

He advertised the sale on Facebook without a price and wrote: ‘200,000 toilet rolls for sale.’

The post said the items would need to be collected from Newquay.

Nick said he delivered all the toilets to the festival before it was cancelled, and has now started unloading them to take to Beautiful Days festival which starts next week in Devon.

He said: ‘I deliver all the toilets into Boardmasters – we were stood around this morning and I took the photo.

‘All the toilets and toilet rolls had been delivered for Andy Loos who is the main contractor.

‘We’ve now started the big clear out of 850 toilets to Beautiful Days festival at Honiton.’

People arriving at Newquay Station today looked devastated that they had travelled such a long way only to be told the festival was cancelled 

Yasmine Fletcher said she had driven six hours and booked a hotel to find out the festival was cancelled

Boardmasters music festival was cancelled due to warnings of severe weather conditions (Pictured: Boardmasters Festival 2018) 

The three-day event, due to be headlined by the Wu-Tang Clan, Florence And The Machine (pictured, left) and Foals, was to take place in Cornwall this weekend. Dizzee Rascal (right) was also meant to be a headline act

Disgruntled festival-goers lashed out at the organisers after the festival was cancelled with just 12 hours’ notice.

The three-day event which was set to host 50,000 music fans was scrapped due to warnings of severe weather conditions.

Revellers took to social media as they slammed Boardmasters for allowing many of them to travel part of the way before pulling the plug on the event after the Met Office warned of wild weather, including heavy rain and high winds.

One fan said she had ‘driven six hours and 270 miles to find it had been cancelled’ while another he had spent 13 hours on a coach.

Posting on Twitter he said: ‘The fact 5 of us left at 8 o’clock this morning, and spent 13 hours on various coaches costing over 250 between us to find out 2 hours after we arrive that it’s cancelled.’

Some had even taken the night bus to the festival and on arrival, were told it had been cancelled.