Pilton

Glastonbury Festival opens with a theatre and circus act performance for the first time in 35 years.

The Somerset festival will have a fallow year to enable the land at Worthy Farm to recover.

A woman who has grown up with Glastonbury Festival said she "loved the anarchy" in the 1970s.

Thousands visit the annual agricultural show, while huge dinosaurs appear at Wookey Hole.

The five-day event will see 200,000 ticket holders descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Festivalgoers who booked through Yurtel have been left ticketless and out of pocket.

Claire Connock, who delivers post in Pilton and once saw Lionel Richie in her street, loves the event.

Organisers say successful 2023 and 2024 events helped "rebuild vital financial reserves" following Covid.