Lowestoft to see in Midsummer Day’s first light with arts festival

Britain’s most easterly town will celebrate solstice with free community events and live music on the sands

What better way could there be to mark midsummer than staying up all night dancing in the sand dunes and greeting the sun at dawn in Britain’s most easterly town?

This is how locals and visitors to Lowestoft in Suffolk will be spending the solstice at First Light, a free arts festival now in its fifth year, which runs for just over 24 hours, with a few brief breaks in the programming for sleep.