Oktoberfest cancelled due to skills shortage

The British version of German beer festival Oktoberfest was cancelled after just one night because of a lack of staff and a major skills shortage.

Hosted on Tobacco Dock in London, the celebrations were scheduled to run over the entire weekend. However, on Friday morning event organisers announced that Oktoberfest had been cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”

It later emerged that the reason for the cancellation was due to a chaotic environment on the Thursday night, whereby the staff were too inexperienced to cope. In an interview with MailOnline, one partygoer, Natasha Gonsalves, described the disorder, saying: “We were told to queue in one queue, then sent to another which had three other queues, and then because we had a table booked we were pushed into another queue.

“Security weren't telling us what the trouble was and no one really seemed to know what was going on. There were people pushing in all different queues.