News in Glastonbury

Fire crews from Glastonbury and Cheddar helped free this lovely bird, which had found himself trapped.

Terry the Tawny owl was stuck in a chimney at a property in Stone Allerton who first called out the RSPCA.

School children from Glastonbury - aged four to 14 - are being encouraged to design a new stamp to commemorate pandemic heroes and if their design is chosen, win money for their school.

Eight designs will be chosen to become special stamps, which will be seen by the Queen and then go on sale across the UK.

Last year, following the re-opening of plant nurseries and garden centres, there was an unprecedented demand for garden plants of any description, be it shrubs or bedding plants.

Gardeners have enjoyed a re-birth with very many people taking their exercise by working in their gardens, redesigning them planting more shrubs or extra summer bedding to brighten up life during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now this your chance to make your entry into Glastonbury in Bloom.

Booking for the one-year only family-friendly campsite on the site of the Glastonbury Festival, opens tomorrow (May 1).

With no festival taking place on Worthy Farm in Pilton for a second consecutive year in 2021, organisers Michael and Emily Eavis are inviting campers, for one year only, to experience the farm in a way they have never been able to before.

Glastonbury Town Council has announced that there will be no formal Glastonbury Beltane gathering taking place in the town on Saturday, May 1.

While Glastonbury is open to visitors, the council respectfully asks the public to please remember that wider social contact rules continue to apply – including the Rule of Six or two households.

All recycling and rubbish collections in the week of the early May Bank Holiday on Monday May 3 will be one day later, Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) has confirmed.

With no collections on Bank Holiday Monday, the week's day changes, from Monday's pick-ups on Tuesday through to Friday's taking place on Saturday May , will affect recycling, rubbish, garden waste, clinical, assisted and bulky waste collections, and waste container deliveries.

Young people at Glastonbury and Street Sea Cadets are looking forward to setting sail on the county's rivers after receiving a cash boost from a housebuilding company.

The youth group, which currently has almost 30 members, has started to meet face-to-face again after a year of Covid-19 disruption.

The local district council has been ordered by its auditors to make information about its commercial investments more readily available to the public.

Mendip District Council has invested in a number of commercial properties in the last few years, using the income from rent to fund front-line services in light of diminishing grant funding from central government.

A team from St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury will be tackling the town's Road Run at the weekend to fundraise in memory of a former student who passed away in 2017.

On Sunday (May 2), a team of teaching and support staff from St Dunstan's are running the Glastonbury Road Race 10K in memory of former pupil Amy Thomas, who died aged 14 in October 2017 from an asthma attack.

If you are a postal voter and have received your postal ballot pack, you are asked to send it back to Mendip District Council as soon as you can.

You can return your postal vote via any Royal Mail post box. However, if time is running out to return your postal vote, then see if there is a Priority Post Box near you.