News in Glastonbury

Glastonbury Abbey is offering residents of Mendip a discounted local visitor ticket, giving them access to the historical monument and spiritual site in 36 acres of grounds.

The ticket is available until the end of July 2020 and entitles the bearer to five visits for £15 (adults) or £7.50 (children) until December 31 2020.

There are planned to be temporary traffic lights on the A361 just outside of Glastonbury this week.

The lights are scheduled to be in place on Monday (June 15) on the A361 in between Edgarley and Havyatt.

Roads in the centre of Glastonbury will be temporarily pedestrianised over the coming fortnight in a bid to help shops reopen.

Somerset County Council and Mendip District Council are planning to close off the High Street, Magdalene Street and Benedict Street to traffic, with delivery and bus access only.

Latest figures have revealed the exact number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Glastonbury area.

The figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show deaths at a local level for people who have contracted Covid-19.

An 18-year-old rugby star, who played for youth teams at Tor RFC in Glastonbury, has been selected for the Bath Rugby senior academy.

Lock and back row forward Ewan Richards has been named as one of only seven players from the Bath Rugby U18 Academy to progress to the senior academy, continuing his progress towards a professional career in the sport.

A free walking treasure hunt around Street is being hosted by Glastonbury and Street Musical Comedy Society.

This is a chance for some family fun while discovering parts of the village you've not seen before.

The future of a former pub in Glastonbury is uncertain after a planning application to turn it into an education centre and chapel has been withdrawn.

The application for the change of use from public house (use Class A4) to mixed use of educational centre and chapel (D1), shop (A1) and cafe (A3) and to build a single-storey extension with associated works at the Globe Inn, The Armoury, Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, had been made by Annabel Du Boulay.

More than 100 miles of Somerset roads will be surface dressed this summer, including some in and around Glastonbury, to improve the surfaces for motorists and prevent potholes from forming.

Somerset County Council has published a full list of every road which will be dressed up until September, including those where the work has already been completed.

Fans of the Glastonbury Festival will remember in 2017 when founder Michael Eavis invited Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on stage with him.

It was the year when chants of "oh, Jeremy Corbyn" could regularly be heard, after his party unexpectedly deprived then-prime minister Theresa May of a parliamentary majority in the Brexit-themed snap general election.

Fire crews from Glastonbury have helped free a casualty who was trapped in their vehicle after it overturned yesterday (June 10).

Just before 4pm, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue control received a call reporting one casualty trapped within a vehicle following a road traffic collision in Burtle Road, Burtle.