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News.com.au
25-06-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
Glastonbury opens its gates for 2025
The gates to Glastonbury Festival have opened for the 2025 celebration of performing arts and music. Organiser Emily Eavis and her father, co-founder Sir Michael Eavis, could be seen counting down and cheering as the festival officially opened while a brass band played. Campers arriving at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, can expect a mixed bag of sunshine and rain throughout the week, 'with sunny spells and scattered showers expected throughout the day' on Wednesday, according to forecasters.
BBC News
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Thousands expected to attend Helston's Flora Day
Thousands expected to attend Helston's Flora Day Thousands of people are expected in Helston, in Cornwall, for the annual Flora Day festival. The event marks the end of winter and coming of summer, and has been celebrated for hundreds of years. The celebration has remained virtually unchanged for more than 200 years, with about 20,000 to 25,000 attending each year. During the day thousands of formally dressed dancers promenade their way in and out of homes and shops which have been decorated with spring flowers, following the beat from a brass band.
