Leeds Festival this year was rocked after Storm Lilian battered tents and forced stages to close down – but revellers still remained in good spirits – I was one of them.

“Anyone got a tent we can borrow?” is what I heard someone jovially shouting around the campsite Saturday morning after the 75mph winds caused theirs to take off.

The brunt of the chaotic weather was felt most stongly on Friday, as the heavy winds demolished urinals, closed stages and forced acts to cancel.

Fences came down and a van even had its window smashed by a falling wall – causing organisers to shut down the BBC Radio 1, Aux and Chevron stages.

However, they wind died down later in the day and festival goers were able to enjoy headliners Liam Gallagher and Catfish and The Bottlemen.

Festival organisers even advised attendees to remain in their tents during the worst of the storm on Friday.

One attendee, Carrie Gill, said: “All the rain came into the tent because the poles pulled so hard from the wind the fabric ripped open.”

“All the stores have blown over, the urinal walls are gone, people’s tents are in the sky, shirts and things from the stores are gone. It’s honestly really bad here,” she added.

“We had to hold onto our tent for about one to two hours as well as double peg it as when the gusts hit it was nearly flying off,” another festival goer, Declan Donnelly, 20, explained.

Many people abandoned their tents and left the festival altogether but most braved through the chaotic scenes and made the most of the experience.

Lilian is the 12th named storm of the season the furthest the Met Office have got through the list since it was introduced and the first since April.

Storms are named when they have the potential to cause disruption or damage which could result in an amber or red warning, the Met Office said.

However, forecasters predict that the worst of the storm is over as we move into a warmer and drier week ahead.