AT LEAST 100 people took part in an illegal rave at a Pershore beauty spot setting fire to wooden benches and leaving behind evidence of drug use. The revellers gathered in Tiddesley Wood nature reserve on Saturday night (September 15) and were not dispersed by police until 7am the following morning after a dog walker reported them.
An ambulance was also called to the scene because of concerns over the state of some of the party-goers.
A generator and DJ set-up was found on the site and police believe at least five of the women attending the event had their handbags stolen - although three have since been found. A sniffer dog searched the woods for drugs after the event and volunteers and staff from Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, which owns the reserve, were called in to clean up the huge number of bottles and other rubbish left by the crowd.
Harry Green, a Worcestershire Wildlife Trust trustee and volunteer said they were left angry and distraught by the mess left. "I arrived to find police and an ambulance on the scene – they were still dispersing the party-goers and getting them to take away some of the rubbish they’d created," he said. "What’s staggering is that no-one discovered this and that the police weren’t called earlier. "While it’s terrible that these people don’t think twice about harming themselves, we’ve now got a big clean-up operation to undertake.
