Headlines: May Day dancers and Star Wars auction

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People gathered at Glastonbury's Chalice Well to observe a modern interpretation of the ancient Celtic pagan fertility rite of Spring

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Cheltenham Live reports on the thousands of drivers who are leaving their cars in fields near Bristol Airport in a bid to beat parking charges.

Some car owners have also reported damage to their vehicles which seemed to have been driven excessively, the website says.

The Swindon Advertiser has drone footage of a £33m project to transform Fleming Way in Swindon.

The scheme will deliver a new bus interchange and new cycle paths once completed.

And May Day celebrations on Thursday brought out Morris dancers across the West Country, with Somerset Live posting some photos of celebrations at Ham Hill.

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A huge Roman lime kiln has been unearthed in Gloucester.

It was exceptionally well preserved, and is probably the first to be excavated in Gloucestershire.

Archaeologists say it would have been used to produce quicklime for mortar.

Hanham-born actor, Bristolian Stephen Merchant has announced he is selling all of his childhood Star Wars toys to raise money for charity.

The auction will appropriately be happening on the unofficial Star Wars day - 4 May.

And UWE Bristol has celebrated one of their business management students who went on to appear in the latest series of The Apprentice.

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