Pinnacle hits a fresh peak at music festivals

Pinnacle Telecom, the Stirlingshire-based temporary voice and data network provider, yesterday hailed the completion of a hat-trick of music festival contracts.

Aim-quoted Pinnacle provided services at the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm, in Somerset, on 22-26 June, which featured artists including Beyonc, Coldplay and U2.

The company's engineers were then in action again at the T in the Park festival - at which musicians such as Beyonc, Arctic Monkeys, Tom Jones and Pendulum performed - at Balado, near Kinross on 7-11 July.

The Latitude Festival, which came to an end on Sunday at Henham Park in Suffolk, completed Pinnacle's hat-trick of live music events. Artists performing at Latitude included James Blake, Suede and Paisley's Paolo Nutini.

Last month Pinnacle posted record interim results, with turnover jumping by 23 per cent to 3.8 million in the six months to 31 March on the back of a string of high-profile contracts, which included the royal wedding, Holyrood elections and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend concert in Carlisle, which featured Lady Gaga.

Half-year losses narrowed from 166,000 to 132,000.