News in Glastonbury

Glastonbury foodies were out in force for the Little Eat:Festival.

More than 20 traders displayed fresh, local produce and there was music and street entertainment, to the delight of visitors at the event.

Glastonbury firefighters helped to free a woman from a car following a crash on the B3151 heading out of Street yesterday evening (July 22).

Just after 5.30pm, fire crews from Street and Glastonbury arrived on the scene along with the police and ambulance services.

Firefighters from Glastonbury helped to successfully rescue a pony from a rhyne in Wedmore yesterday afternoon (July 22).

Just before 2.30pm, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue control received a call reporting a pony stuck in a water-filled rhyne in Wedmore.

Plans for a new unitary council in Somerset have taken a step forward following approval from Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick.

The plans will move the area away from a two-tier system of county and district councils to a unitary council.

A group of 11 supporters of cancer charity We Hear You (WHY) have raised more than £12,000 by climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon in a single weekend in June.

The Three Peaks challenge requires participants to climb three mountains in three countries in 48 hours, only pausing to travel between them.

Two men have received combined jail sentences totalling more than 20 years after a teenager was struck with a car and threatened with a knife in Glastonbury.

Joseph Parkinson, aged 24, was at the wheel of a red Honda Civic on June 2 2020 that was driven from Street to Glastonbury.

Glastonbury building contractors Melhuish and Saunders have started a joint project with Marpool Primary School in in Exmouth, to build a bespoke 'resource base' to cater to children who face challenges in mainstream education.

The project to construct the Avocet Learning Trust Resource Base is now underway, and will replace the temporary buildings currently on site.

Cider-makers hoping to enter the British Cider Championships only have until July 27 to do so.

The championships usually take place during the Royal Bath and West Show in late May but will, for one year only, take place during the one-off Bath and West Country Festival, being held near Shepton Mallet in August.

A Somerset council has been accused of deliberately hindering progress on new 'active travel' routes for pedestrians and cyclists

Numerous groups across Somerset have been campaigning to create new routes which allow pedestrians and cyclists to travel between different settlements, reducing car usage and promoting healthier lifestyles.

Avon and Somerset Police are seeking witnesses to the single vehicle collision which happened on Monday (July 19) near Glastonbury just before 4pm.

A white Audi, travelling from Middle Drove on to Watchwell Drove in the direction of Butleigh, left the road and collided with a tree.