Financial pressures have seen council chiefs plan to introduce higher parking fees, fines for up to £180 for littering, and higher prices for social care in a bid to plug a £29m budget gap.

An estimated 80,000 fans will attend each night Oasis perform in the 600 acre (242 hectare) site.

The council has previously said that there would be no cost to the taxpayer from the shows.

John Hacking, executive councillor for leisure, said in October that concert organisers would be required to bear the burden of policing and other expenses.

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