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| West Oxfordshire Tory constituency chairman found dead at Glastonbury | |
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| A senior member of David Cameron's Tory constituency association has been found dead in a toilet at Glastonbury Festival, the BBC understands. | |
| The body of Christopher Shale, chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, was found at about 0900 BST at the music event in Somerset. | The body of Christopher Shale, chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, was found at about 0900 BST at the music event in Somerset. |
| Police cordoned off the hospitality area where his body was found and are investigating the cause of death. | |
| Mr Shale is understood to be a close friend of the prime minister. | |
| Inspector Chris Morgan, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "A male was found down by the press office in the toilet area. | |
| "At the moment we are working to establish the cause of the gentleman's death." | |
| The cordon was put up around the backstage shower and toilet area, and a camping area where production teams and some performers stay was also blocked off. | |
| Mr Shale features in an article in the Mail on Sunday, which portrayed him as being critical of his Conservative association. | |
| In what the newspaper calls a strategy document looking at how to increase association membership - which Mr Cameron is said to be aware of - Mr Shale says that at present there was "no reason to join - lots of reasons not to". | |
| In the document, he presented a scathing assessment of the social skills and fundraising efforts of his association. | |
| More than 137,000 people are thought to be attending the festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, which ends on Sunday. |