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Anna Gladwin & Ruth Ovens

A37 Glastonbury Festival drivers can use pub toilet for 'travellers' p**s pot' fee says landlord

Drivers heading to Glastonbury Festival along the A37 will be able to use pub landlord Nicholas Williams toilet if they're caught short on - providing they donate to a 'travellers' p**s pot'.

The blue charity collection box sits on the bar of the Travellers Rest, in East Pennard but it's no normal charity pot.

A sticky label stipulating drivers' who are caught short can use the facilities - for a fee - is clearly displayed reports SomersetLive.

Mr Williams is fed up with the number of people who urinate on the roadside.

Given it's a key route to Glastonbury Festival, he could be inundated with Worthy Farm-bound revellers this summer.

Mr Williams said: "People sat in queues start peeing outside their cars because they can’t get to a toilet and it just flows down the road. It’s disgusting."

Thousands of people will travel along the A361 and A37 to reach Glastonbury Festival, which, since 1976 has had a team of Green Police who patrol the site to make sure people do not pollute the water and hedgerows, as well as making sure they dispose of litter correctly.

He has raised £20 in the six months he has had the 'travellers' p**s pot' and claims it's drivers with "no respect" who urinate in public.

He added: "I pay for the paper, I pay for the water. The cesspit alone cost £400.

“This is my home, I don’t come into yours. You’re not my customer and you think I should supply a toilet for you for free?”

He said the only public toilets which would be available to travellers have been locked because he believes they have been "abused."

He believes other pubs have also started to charge people to use the toilets and says a lack of public facilities is the problem.

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