News in Glastonbury

A special, condensed director's cut of the Glastonbury Festival Live At Worthy Farm stream, which premiered online on Saturday (May 22), will be broadcast on BBC television in the coming weeks.

In addition, there will be another chance to catch highlights from the livestream across television, radio and online platforms between Friday and Sunday, June 25 to 27, as a part of the Glastonbury Experience 2021 – the BBC's annual celebration of Glastonbury Festival.

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Avon and Somerset Police have now confirmed that the body found in Glastonbury on Tuesday (May 18) has been identified as Lawrence Kemp.

Mr Kemp went missing from his home town of Glastonbury in August 2020.

A planning application to build a drive-thru coffee shop, believed to be for Costa, in the car park at B&Q in Glastonbury, has been approved by Mendip District Council.

The application for the building of a coffee shop with drive-thru facility in the car park of the B&Q store, Wirral Park Road, Glastonbury, had been submitted for South Somerset District Council, who bought the site for £4.4 million in September 2019.

Glastonbury Country Market is re-opening on Tuesday June 1 from 9.30am to 12.30pm inside the Town Hall and everyone involved can't wait to meet all the customers again.

The Country Market will have its regular locally made, grown, crafted, created seasonal produce and goods on sale, and the café section will be open once again.

All four Somerset districts have become less prosperous in the past 12 months, according to a new report.

The United Kingdom Prosperity Report 2021 published by the Legatum Institute ranks the 379 local authorities across the United Kingdom according to 12 key measures.

Local fundraiser Rachel Clark is hosting a virtual reunion mile of her 2019 365 for WHY running challenge on Saturday (May 29), in aid of cancer counselling charity We Hear You (WHY).

Rachel ran a mile every day in 2019, raising more than £20,000 for WHY. The reunion mile is timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Rachel losing her mum Shirley, the inspiration for all her fundraising since 2011.

Police were called to land at Wearyall Hill, Glastonbury, just before 9.20am on Tuesday (May 18) after a man reported discovering the body of an adult male.

Formal identification is not expected for some days. However, officers have been in touch with the family of Lawrence Kemp, missing from his Glastonbury home since August 2020, to tell them of the discovery.

Three crews tackled a fire at a property in the centre of Glastonbury last night (May 19).

Just before 8.30pm, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Control received reports of a fuse box smoking within a property in Magdalene Street.

Two people were taken to hospital after being trapped in their vehicles for nearly two hours following a crash that closed the A39 between Glastonbury and Wells yesterday (May 19).

At about 2.30pm, two fire appliances and a heavy rescue vehicle from Glastonbury and Street were mobilised following a call from police, requesting assistance to a crash between a car and a lorry on the A39 at Polsham, close to the former Three Wells pub, where people were reported to be trapped in both vehicles.