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By Paul Sandle and Sarah Mills GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) – Festival-goers are determined to have a blast at Glastonbury and put the rising cost of fuel, food and drink to the back of their minds until they leave Worthy Farm on Monday after a weekend of escapism. A majority of the 200,000 people at the renowned British music festival secured a ticket in autumn 2019, when ‘coronavirus’ was a word familiar to few outside the science community and inflation was 1.5%. Two and half years later, inflation is 9.1%. Although COVID restrictions are over, the festival scene is not immune to the pres…