Police arrested 25 people at Stonehenge overnight after an estimated 37,000 people saw the sun rise on the longest day in the calendar.

It was a birthday to remember set against a backdrop of sweeping, recently harvested fields that were dotted with huge bales of straw.

The people of Wiltshire have a long standing reputation for preferring farming to war-like pursuits.

HUNDREDS of druids, pagans and tourists braved the gloomy weather to gather at Stonehenge yesterday morning to celebrate the winter solstice.