Set in Broad Chalke near Salisbury, the festival offers talks, historic performances and live music.

More re-enactors than ever at history festival

Local newspapers across the West cover Glastonbury Festival and Princess Anne's story this week.

Newspaper headlines: Princess Anne drama and Glastonbury madness

Forget the baked potatoes and lentil curries, hundreds of people at Glastonbury Festival have been tucking into a Sunday roast. Deluxe Diner have been offering them since 2016, and they have grown in popularity over the years, selling out in just 55 minutes in 2024. Festival goers paid £36 for...

Hundreds queue for roasts at Glastonbury Festival

Youth Beatz draws thousands of music fans - mainly aged between 12 and 25 - to Park Farm in Dumfries.

The volunteers behind a massive free music festival

The Standard

A man found dead along with a woman at a house in Staffordshire has been named as a paramedic who starred in a Channel 4 TV show.Police have launched a murder inquiry after the pair were found dead in a house in Alpine Drive in Hednesford, Cannock, around 12.30pm on Tuesday.They have been named by police as 24-year-old Daniel Duffield, from nearby Cannock, and 22-year-old Lauren Evans, from Bridgend in South Wales.Mr Duffield was a paramedic for West Midlands Ambulance Service, and appeared in series 11 Channel 4’s 999: On the Frontline.His friend and colleague Ellie, who appeared alongside him...

Man found dead alongside woman is revealed to be paramedic who starred in Channel 4 show

The Independent

A British teenager who has gone missing during a holiday in Tenerife told a friend he had “cut his leg” on a cactus and had “no idea where he was” in a frantic last phone call.Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday morning when he called his friend, Lucy Law, after attempting to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.The walk from Rural de Teno park, his last known location, to the south of the Spanish island, would take around 11 hours on foot.Search teams refocused their efforts on Thursday in the north...

Missing teen in Tenerife said he had ‘cut leg and had no idea where he was’

Wet 'n' Wild owner Serco Leisure confirms the sale, but does not reveal details of its new owner.

Waterpark sold to unnamed developer

Paying tribute to the 23-year-old, his family say they will "never be the same without him".

Stabbed man had 'heart of gold', his family says

The ambulance service confirms that one of the two people found dead was a member of staff.

Man found dead inside house was paramedic

A transgender woman has been found guilty of rape following a night out. Lexi Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, was living as a man when she attacked a woman in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, on 23 April 2023. Swindon Crown Court was told Secker would be tried as a woman and...

Transgender woman guilty of rape after night out

Two men are arrested and a crime scene is in place after a woman was attacked at the M32 Skatepark.

Woman raped in early hours of morning in skatepark

Four Sri Lankan fishermen have died and another two are critically ill after consuming an unknown liquid from bottles they found while at sea, according to local media reports. The sailors were said to be on a fishing trip when they retrieved the bottles around 320 nautical miles from Tangalle,...

Four die after drinking from bottles found in sea

A mother grieving the loss of two of her three children who took their own lives said she never imagined it was possible. Tanya and Stevie Kordek began experiencing mental health problems as teenagers but struggled to get help as adults, their mother said. Inspired by her children, Leanda Kelly,...

'You don't expect your children to take their lives'

An IT worker who poisoned a married couple with fentanyl is feared to have killed his own father and grandfather. Luke D'Wit, 34, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years after using the opioid painkiller to poison Stephen and Carol Baxter at their £1million home in West Mersea, Essex.Detectives are now exploring whether D’Wit was responsible for the death of his father, Vernon, who had been prescribed fentanyl before he was found dead in a chair at his nearby home in 2021.As part of their review, detectives have also been re-examining how D’Wit’s grandfather died.Essex Police...

Fentanyl double murderer 'may have poisoned father and grandfather' as police launch probe

A pharmacist who admitted to selling drugs without a prescription for his own financial gain has received a suspended sentence. In April, Gerard Cullinan, of Hillside Crescent in Belfast, pleaded guilty on behalf of his company Castlereagh Pharmacy Ltd to selling or supplying painkiller co-codamol and opioid fentanyl without a prescription between January 2017 and June 2020.

Pharmacist sold drugs without prescription

A 57-year-old man who died when he was attacked at a pub in Chichester “lived for his family”, his wife and daughters have said in tribute to him.David Hallatt, a tiler from South Yorkshire, was pronounced deceased after attempts by police and paramedics to save his life following the incident at The Dolphin and Anchor pub in the West Sussex city on June 20.Kieran Egan, 30, of Baldmoor Lake Road in Birmingham, has been charged with his murder.He appeared before Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Monday, June 24, and was remanded in custody until the next hearing at Lewes Crown Court.A...

Family pay tribute to 57-year-old who died after attack at Chichester pub

Brett Allford, 42, from Adelaide, asked for explicit images from eight children from Redditch.

Australian paedophile preyed on UK children

Police are appealing to drivers who may have information that helps the crash investigation.

Man, 26, killed in single-vehicle crash

Nine drug dealers who exploited a 16-year-old boy to sell crack cocaine and heroin in north London have been sentenced. Chris Moran, Terell Prescott and Shaquille Allen’s gang even blackmailed the teenager over a debt to sell drugs for them to users in Camden and Islington. The youngster, who has now been safeguarded by Metropolitan Police officers, was arrested along with two other males during Operation Mackerel.Detectives linked the trio to a wider network operating in the N1 postcode.Dawn raids were carried out in Islington, Hackney, Haringey and the Hertfordshire towns of London Colney and Welwyn Garden City in October...

Crack cocaine gang blackmailed boy, 16, and inflicted ‘misery’ on Islington and Camden

A woman has been jailed for the manslaughter of an 18-month-old boy. Shannon Driver, 27 and from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, claimed Jaxon Syrett slipped in the shower in September 2020, but was convicted in January. She will serve 12 years in prison and five years on licence. Sentencing her at...

Woman jailed for toddler's manslaughter

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Godiva hailed the 'best value' festival at 25

Three current and former Godiva festival directors share their memories of the Coventry...

Godiva hailed the 'best value' festival at 25

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