The Bloc Weekender Festival was been forced to close early due to health and safety issues on its opening night, and today's festival will not take place.

A statement from the organisers on their website states the following:

By now everyone will have heard that Bloc 2012 was closed due to crowd safety concerns.

We are all absolutely devastated that this happened, but the safety of everyone on site was paramount.

Given the situation on the ground, we feel that it was the right decision to end the show early.

Bloc will not open on Saturday 7th July so please don’t come to the site.

Stand by for full information on refunds.