Rock superstars U2 are to headline this summer's Glastonbury after pulling out of last year's festival at the last minute.

Jessie J is ready to "take on" Beyonce Knowles, Pink and Katy Perry after winning a BRIT Award.

Coldplay have ended months of speculation to confirm they will be among the headliners at Glastonbury Festival this summer.

A community is up in arms that its annual cheese-rolling day risks being turned into a "cheap commercial event".

In the mists of dawn yesterday it looks even more mysterious, but Glastonbury Tor in Somerset has an enigmatic air however you see it. For some people these days it may be merely the hill that looks over the world's biggest music festival, but for others, for hundreds of years, this has been the site of Avalon – the legendary river-island in the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

When a lady called Felicity Finch makes a programme for Radio 4 about cage-fighting, you have to wonder if perhaps she is going out of her comfort zone, if not her mind. One of the first voices you hear – disembodied, though not literally – says, "There's nothing like knocking someone out. It's like an orgasm," and you realise straightaway that this ain't The Archers. But when Finch catches her first piece of the action, she breathlessly intones: "My first instinct is to join in." Well, an orgasm's an orgasm. Perhaps it's more Book at Bedtime territory.

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By the time you read this, I'll be sat in a field with my partner and son, Krishan, celebrating his third birthday in Cornwall. We decided to head to the coast for a bit of rest and relaxation after our second festival of 2010.

Forty years ago, dairy farmer Michael Eavis put on his first music festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton. Just over a thousand hippies parted with £1 to see T-Rex perform and enjoy a pint or two of free milk from the farm’s Friesians.