A three-day folk, roots and rock festival has seen its first guests arrive for another sell-out year in Oxfordshire. The Fairport Cropredy Convention has once again transformed the sleepy village on ...

Former Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thomspon has come to the rescue of his former bandmates, stepping in to replace Trevor Horn at this year's Cropredy Festival, after the latter was forced ...

Mattacks became a regular member of the band in the '70s after he replaced Martin Lamble, who was killed when Fairport's van ...