News in Glastonbury

A police stop-check of a car in Romania has resulted in a 23-year-old man being convicted of a series of burglaries committed in Somerset, including in Glastonbury.

Claudiu Popa, of no fixed address, was jailed for three years and 10 months at Taunton Crown Court on Friday (May 15), after admitting conspiracy to commit burglaries.

The organisers of the Glastonbury Festival have warned the public to not visit the Worthy Farm site during lockdown.

In a statement, the festival organisers have said that they do not want visitors to the working farm, and that people who try and visit will be asked to leave.

Principal building contractor and sponsor of Glastonbury Nub News, Melhuish and Saunders, has just completed essential roof works at a Somerset school, in time for the potential reopening next month.

The construction sites of Melhuish and Saunders, who are based in Glastonbury, are all open and making progress on current building projects for various sectors including health and education.

An organisation in Glastonbury that is providing a vital service during the coronavirus pandemic has received hundreds of pounds from the local Lions Club.

Glastonbury and Street Lions Club has donated £400 to the Glastonbury Foodbank, along with both Street Foodbank and the Street Baptist Church Meals on Wheels service, who have both received the same sum.

The chief executive of the trust which runs St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury has released plans of how it may be re-opening.

Alun Williams, who is in charge of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, has written to parents and carers who will get letters today (May 19) and tomorrow outlining the plans they have for reopening.

One of the members of Glastonbury's 5G Advisory Committee has spoken out about why he resigned before the group's report was published.

David Swain was one of four members who resigned, claiming that scientific fact was not being acknowledged by some on the committee, but chairman Jon Cousins insists that he would have preferred if the quartet had stayed in the committee to help provide robust arguments.

A musician from Glastonbury has created a music video for the folk-rock band The Levellers and a number of introduction scenes for their upcoming DVD - using figures made of wooden pegs.

Nick Parker has created the video for a song that will be released later this year, so it is currently being kept under wraps.

A man was taken to hospital after an incident in Glastonbury High Street yesterday evening (May 15).

A number of police vehicles and medical crews were called to the incident at the bottom of the High Street in the early evening.

Avon and Somerset Police have confirmed that a man has died following a car fire in Glastonbury yesterday (May 14).

The police were called to the fire in Back River Drove at around 6pm yesterday, as was an air ambulance and fire crews from Street and Glastonbury.

A road in Glastonbury is set to be closed for roadworks, as crews step up their return to work following the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.

Cinnamon Lane is due to be shut for a day at some point between Tuesday (May 19) and June 1, depending on the roadworks crew's schedule which is being kept flexible at this time.