Newspaper headlines: 'Slip N Slide incident' and Stonehenge drama
Just Stop Oil activists spray painted the ancient monument
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Headlines on local websites and newspapers in the West of England have been dominated by a mixture of Glastonbury Festival news and Stonehenge.
Earlier in the week, Bristol Live's network content editor Steven Smith reported on the Just Stop Oil campaigners spraying Stonehenge with an orange paint, external.
He explained how members of the public tried to intervene during the incident near Salisbury on Wednesday - the day before the Summer Solstice.
The Swindon Advertiser also covered this and a day later wrote an article on the successful removal of the paint, external. It said a "specialist handheld blower" was used to clean the orange cornflour paint from the ancient monument.
More than 15,000 people gathered at Stonehenge for summer solstice
Early Friday morning brought a flurry of photographs from news outlets across the west on the summer solstice celebrations, where around 15,000 gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sunrise.
The Wiltshire Times reported King Arthur Pendragon, a senior druid and pagan priest, had disapproved of the action earlier in the week, external.
But explained this did not diminish the celebrations for those attending which he said included people from “every single continent”.
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald reported a group of people dressed as Mexican mushrooms took nine days to travel to the site, external.
Glastonbury Festival is returning next week
With only a handful of days to go until the gates of Glastonbury Festival open to revellers, Somerset Live kept a close eye on all of the weather reports, external.
Content editor Daniel Clark reported on Great Western Railway revealing its 'Shania Train', external ahead of the event.
The new train will be used to drop off some of the thousands of festival-goers set to descend upon Castle Cary station next week.
The Somerset Gazette, shared a special "star filled" photograph, external" inspired by the festival's Pyramid Stage.
"All aboard the Shania Train express - next stop Glasto"
In other news, a special tribute film for Wilf 'the egg man' Peddle' made by Tor Theatre, external was shared on the Normal For Glastonbury, Facebook page.
Somerset Live, reported an air ambulance airlifted a boy to hospital after he got injured at the Slip N Slide attraction in Frome, external.
Bristol Live, published an article on the latest in the Bristol Downs van dwellers saga where caravans and vehicles parked on the beauty spot , externalwere told to leave within the next two weeks.
Wilf delivered farm eggs to residents in Glastonbury Town
A post on the Weston-super-Mare in the Spotlight Facebook group, external gainied attention earlier this week when a resident reported seeing poeple walking all over the town's floral clock mural.
The clock had been restored after being concreted over in February.
Volunteers from Weston Lions Club have been responsible for looking after the clock for the last decade.
A lorry driver was found guilty of dangerous driving after he hit an M5 Gantry
Do you remember when that lorry that hit the M5 Gantry?
The lorry driver was found guilty of dangerous driving this week and Burnham-on-sea.com re-shared the shocking footage., external
Anthony Baker, 48, had denied the charge, but was convicted by a jury after a two-day trial at Bristol Crown Court.
Finally, a fun day of dressing up in Victorian clothes was had by Chalford Hill Primary School pupils in Stroud this week.