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The iconic Glastonbury Festival opened its doors on June 21, with a torrential downpour threatening to turn the famous site into a mudbath for the 200,000 music fans set to descend on a farm in southwest England to see acts including Arctic Monkeys, Guns N'Roses and Elton John.

Historians have spoken of their amazement after discovering an entire “lost chamber” of 15th-century wall paintings during the restoration of a medieval manor house

Residents in Frome, Somerset, reported receiving cash and letters, leading the Frome Neighbourhood Policing Team to look for a man in a bid to find out why

Residents in Frome, Somerset, reported receiving cash and letters, leading the Frome Neighbourhood Policing Team to look for a man in a bid to find out why

Britain is to offer hundreds of millions of pounds in grants to aid the recovery of cultural venues and heritage sites hit by the pandemic, the government announced on April 2.

Some 2,700 organizations including the Glastonbury music festival will benefit from the grants which amount to £400 million ($550 million and 470 million euros), the ministry of culture said in a statement.

"I was in the bookshop the other day and I saw your book and realized that you must be the son of Bill Mazower, who was my first boyfriend in Minehead, Somerset in 1941," declares one of several letters Mark Mazower has received since the publication last year of his book "What You Did Not Tell."

Those, who believe the British people were all white, can change their thought now as scientists have revealed that the man - who lived in Britain 9,000 years ago - had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair.

Strange external features characterize the progenitor of all Britons who lived in their lands 10,000 years ago, France's press reports.

Innovative technology developed by Cypriot scientist Dr Yiannis Ieropoulos that uses urine to provide electrical energy was widely used at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

The technology which uses urine-fed Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) was used to power the festival’s giant screens.

The gates to the Glastonbury Festival swung opened on June 21 for five days of the world's biggest greenfield music fest, headlined this year by Radiohead, the Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran.