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Mark Sutherland Glastonbury Festival — the biggest live music event in Europe — gets into full swing today, for the first time since 2019.There will be 200,000 people on site in Somerset, in the west of England, watching thousands of performances across 93 different stages, including headliners Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, and Diana Ross in the highly prized Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot.And yet, somehow, Glastonbury is even bigger than those numbers suggest. First held in 1970 – when 1,500 hippies got free milk in exchange for their £1 entrance fee – the festival has developed into a national and international institution, as much a part of the traditional British summer as Wimbledon.

Supermarket giant ASDA is facing a furious shopper boycott after a series of photographs taken outside one of its stores went viral. The images have sparked an entire Twitter campaign, and a major charity is now involved.

Glastonbury festival-goers “may need to take shelter if they can” as thunderstorms are set to sweep across much of southern England, a Met Office meteorologist has warned. Music lovers will be swapping sun cream for umbrellas at Worthy Farm as the weather is set to turn from “wall-to-wall sunshine” and high temperatures on Thursday morning to “heavy thundery downpours” in the afternoon.The Met Office issued a yellow thunderstorm warning stretching from Sheffield in the North, across the South East and down to Bath in the South West, meaning Glastonbury revellers could be caught in torrential downpours in Somerset.

Glastonbury is back for the first time in two years, returning to its home at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Kicking off on Wednesday (22 June), the iconic festival is well underway, brimming with exciting live performances.

Nova Twins have announced their second tour of North America for 2022, returning with their just-released ‘Supernova’ album.The London-native punk duo made their stateside debut back in March, performing a showcase at this year’s SXSW alongside a handful of club gigs. The ‘Supernova’ tour will be their first proper trek of the continent as a headlining act, with 11 intimate shows lined up across September and October.They’ll start at The Roxy Theatre in LA, performing on Tuesday September 27, before rolling through San Francisco and Seattle over the last few days of the month.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary by renewing their marriage vows.

BBC Breakfast star Naga Munchetty, 47, had been in conversation with fellow presenter Jo Whiley about the music festival Glastonbury, which kicks off today, when she made the blunder.She referred to other BBC reporters as "rivals" before swiftly changing gears and substituting the word with "colleagues"."Who else do you want but Jo Whiley there presenting for the BBC?" she began during an interview from the festival published on BBC Sounds."I was talking with our rivals," she told Jo, before hastily adding: "Not rivals - our colleagues, I should say!"Jo, 56, responded: "I'm glad I'm talking to you as well then!"The pair then went into a conversation about Glastonbury, which Naga revealed that she had never attended before.Her admission followed comments from comic Lenny Henry querying why the world-famous festival did not attract large numbers of ethnic minorities.Jo assured her that it was "the most extraordinary experience" which would hold "appeal for all ages".She told of how her mother had camped out with her several years earlier and was now nagging her for a repeat experience as she was "desperate" to go again.Jo said she had also seen off her children, the youngest of whom is 13, as they headed to the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset.Top acts include headliner Paul McCartney, who is expected to wow at the event after having just turned 80 last week.DJ Jo spoke of the strong "female representation" that she was looking forward to her daughters India and Coco being inspired by.She has previously joked that her youngest daughter was conceived thanks to Glastonbury favourite Noel Gallagher."I’d always wanted a fourth child and I kept saying to Steve not to forget that,” she ­told the Mirror previously.“Then I

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One shopper who headed out to get some groceries from their local Asda store has claimed the trip left them "shaken with anger".

arrested for the murder of his neighbours with whom he was embroiled in a bitter parking row that ended in tragedy.Afghanistan veteran Collin Reeves, 35, was jailed for 38 years today, June 21, for stabbing Stephen and Jennifer Chapple to death at their home in the village of Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset in November last year.He carried out the 'unprovoked and utterly unjustified' attack with the ceremonial dagger given to him when he left the Army as his victims' two children were asleep upstairs.READ MORE: Paedo babysitter pleads guilty to 141 sickening sex acts against kidsNow, in officer bodycam footage released by Avon and Somerset Police, shows the moment Reeves was arrested last year after calling police to admit what he had done. The two officers, one male and one female, appear to confuse who the accused was because two men exit the home the officers attend."Not me! Him!" an exacerbated man says, before Reeves tells him to "go in the f***** house".The officers tell Reeves he is under arrest for the attempted murder "of the two people in the house next door," and when asked does he understand the comments, he remains silent and still.

Glastonbury time, the iconic music festival never fails to deliver when it comes to the style stakes. After being cancelled two years in a row it is making a triumphant return in 2022. This year is a bumper year for music also, with hundreds of acts performing at Worthy Farm between Friday the 24th and Sunday the 26th of June.

tulips bloom like red hearts in the fields and I feel like falling in love.   ’For a while, I’d resigned myself to never meeting anyone romantically again. I’d settled for being Miss Havisham, dying sad and alone, probably to be eaten by my dog, Stringerbelle.

The star, who is the son of Zoe and Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim, has appeared alongside his mum on Celebrity Gogglebox. She started by asking her son on the show this morning: “Woody, hello darling, how was your weekend?”“Good, stressful, long,” he said in response.Woody continued: “It’s bizarre that… I always say it but we only see each other when we’re working.” Zoe said: “We do, and when we do Gogglebox!”Her son then added: “It started as a joke but now it’s almost like a curse.” “It’s lovely to see you son,” the host concluded. Zoe and Norman got married at Babington House in Somerset in 1999.Although they split in January 2003, they got back together three months later.On September 24, 2016, they announced their separation after 18 years of marriage.Fatboy Slim is an English DJ who has won ten MTV video Music Awards and two BRIT awards.Woody is the oldest son of the pair, with his younger sister, Nelly May Lois Cook, born in 2010. The star made his TV debut on The Circle 2 on September 24, 2019.And fans were in hysterics at the time as Woody accidentally flirted with Richard Madeley after mistaking him for someone else over a video call.He played himself in the reality show, but didn't reveal who his famous parents were until weeks into the series.Woody appeared alongside mum Zoe Ball on Celebrity Gogglebox in 2020.The rising star appeared on the Channel 4 show which ran for seven episodes, with an all-star line-up including Nick Grimshaw, Stacey Solomon, Joe Swash, Harry Redknapp and Laura Whitmore. Zoe was the first female host of both the Radio 1 and 2 Breakfast shows.She also presented Live and Kicking alongside Jamie Theakston from 1996-1999. Zoe was a contestant in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing in

#cottagecore on Instagram?Country life was perhaps once synonymous with living off-grid, a hippy idyll for people who wanted to opt out of the system. But for my generation of digital natives, living in nature doesn’t mean dropping out. It can be quite the ­opposite.

Countryfile sparked a race row two years ago when they claimed people from Bame backgrounds feel unwelcome in the countryside because it is a “white environment”. But of course the issue of race and country life has been discussed for decades. As a child in Somerset, I remember a black friend talking to me about how difficult she found it to grow up in an area where so few people looked like her.

Taxpayers had to fork out £1.5million to help send children of top Army officers to private schools last year.

She’s the Lanarkshire mum who took on Gordon Ramsay in his latest Apprentice-style TV show, Future Food Stars.

Glastonbury has announced the latest line-up for its 2022 festival, with the bill for The Glade area being confirmed today (May 11).Preparations continue for the return of the Worthy Farm festival after two years away due to COVID. 2022’s edition will run from June 22-26 in Somerset.After Glastonbury organisers shared the line-ups for the Common, Left Field and Shangri-La areas last week, the festival has now confirmed the 2022 bill for the dance music-focused Glade.“Spawned from its roots in the Field of Avalon and the Experimental Soundfield of 1992, The Glade has been around and kicking since the year 2000,” a statement on Glastonbury’s website reads about the area.“Always evolving, this year it’s changed up a gear.

NHS dentist – and residents are starting to complain about their rotting teeth.Locals in Somerset have been unable to see an NHS due to 2,000 of the dental specialists quitting in the last year.And it has seen the area nicknamed the “Dental Desert”.According to The Times, Healthwatch Somerset has said a third of the calls made between December 2021 and February 2022 were related to people being unable to get any NHS dentistry access, including children, pregnant women and people unable to pay to go private.Gill Keniston-Goble, one of Healthwatch Somerset's managers, said: “People are telling us they have called many dentists but cannot find one taking new patients.“We are also hearing from the public that NHS England is advising there are no dentists taking new NHS patients in Somerset."Somerset has a population of around 560,000.One patient, called Lydia Davis, said that she has not been able to find a dentist within a two-hour drive radius of her home.Only 27, she has the bleeding-gum disease called gingivitis – she also needs two new fillings and wisdom teeth removal.She said: “Sitting in the dentist's office, listening to the list of treatments, the cost of £1,100 brought me to tears," she said."Whenever I eat and feel a twinge, my heart drops - I panic that something terrible is happening again.

dog walker left a farmer covered in blood after launching a rock at his head in a bizarre fit of anger.Christopher Pine has had "a few staples" put into his skull in A&E as a 'balding' man with a Staffordshire bull terrier objected to his work on a field.The 70-year-old was out in Creech St Michael, near Taunton, Somerset when someone decided to throw dirt at him, according to his wife. When Christopher asked the dog walker the reason for the petulant outburst, he was told it was because he apparently ploughed over the footpath, SomersetLive reports.

A pudding maker from Perthshire was knocked out of a new Apprentice-style television game show fronted by Michelin star chef Gordon Ramsay last week.