Glastonbury Festival is just days away so you would be forgiven if you believed founder and organiser, Michael Eavis, was running around Worthy Farmy like a headless chicken with an endless list of jobs.
But in fact, the Somerset-born man had more pressing issues to attend to. Along with his family, he welcomed ex-footballer and TV presenter Gary Lineker to Pilton to celebrate the completion of a further 20 social rent homes in the village, bringing the total number of affordable homes built on land donated by Michael to 52.
Gary planted a tree with Michael and his grandchildren at the site – named Athelstan’s Meadow – just around the corner from where the festival takes place. The land and the stone for these new houses – built by EG Carter in partnership with the Guinness Partnership – was provided free of charge from Worthy Farm with contributions for dressing the stone from the Workers Beer Company, who provide bars at the Festival.
