MUSIC fans from across the country braved the rain and mud at the BeatHerder Festival at the weekend.

The sold-out three-day festival, in the Ribble Valley countryside at Sawley, combined live music across two stages with locally-sourced food and drink and an ‘unpretentious northern ethos’.

This was the seventh year the festival had come to rural East Lancashire and line-up highlights included reggae musician Lee Scratch Perry, electronic rock band Death in Vegas and Saturday night headliners Orbital.