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TICKETS to see Elton John on the opening night of next year’s Henley Festival are being sold for almost 15 times their face value. A handful of tickets to see him perform on the “floating stage” on July 6 have appeared on the ticketing website www.viagogo
.co.uk. The unidentified seller is offering four £35 general admission tickets at £495 each.

The new Townlands Hospital will now not be completed before January. The £16 million “health campus” was due to be handed over to NHS Property Services earlier this month and officially opened on December 7. But that date has now been put back as developer Amber Infrastructure has yet to complete internal work at the hospital.