News in Glastonbury

The management team at the Assembly Rooms in Glastonbury are busy making plans to enable them to put on community events in the venue soon.

The team have been meeting online almost on a daily basis to organise jobs at the venue, and be prepared for when they can reopen.

These pictures show a tiny snippet of some of the experiences of the Glastonbury Community Volunteers from recent months.

Volunteering brings a whole range of experiences, and one of those is the joy in meeting people, having a shared experience or learning something new from a conversation with a resident.

Glastonbury's Somerset Rural Life Museum looks set to back in business early next month (August).

South West Heritage Trust, which runs the Chilkwell Street museum, is currently putting plans in place for the reopening.

The Glastonbury Town Crier captured this stunning image of Comet Neowise last night (July 19).

David Greenway took the shot on the road between Butleigh and Kingweston, and it was his third time out trying to get a photo on the comet.

Somerset-based counselling charity We Hear You (WHY) have received a donation of £725 from The Somerset Collective's recent online pop-up sale.

The Somerset Collective, led by Jess Hyde, is an organisation that showcases small businesses, designers and makers in Somerset and brings them together for a series of pop-up sales throughout the year, often hosted by At the Chapel in Bruton. Each sale raises money for charity, with almost £8,000 raised to date.

The temporary pedestrianisation of a number of roads in Glastonbury, including the High Street, has unexpectedly been lifted.

The announcement was made today (July 17) although the lifting of the closure of the road to traffic was made yesterday.

A car has been completed destroyed by fire along Sharpham Drove in Glastonbury.

The fire service was called out at just before 11 am this morning (July 15) to reports of a car alight in a field.

New and replacements fire engines may not be deployed in Somerset until the middle of 2021 because of the coronavirus.

Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service will be spending more than £15M over the next five years on replacement fire engines as part of its 'Safer Together' programme – with just over £5M being committed for the first year.

One of Somerset's most colourful businesses is holding a sale in Pilton next week – to help clear out some of its selection of 30,000 costumes.

The week-long event is part of its summer-sale roadshow around the county.

Mendip's ambitious plans to provide much-needed social housing right across the district is a step closer.

The scheme - the first for two decades - promises to create jobs, boost skills and the local economy, while leaving a lasting legacy of social homes offering fair rents for residents.