Druids celebrate Summer Solstice at stone circle

Druids have celebrated the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, with a pagan ceremony at Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick at sunrise.

From now, the Earth starts to tilt us away from the sun, bringing shorter days.

Druids believe all of nature is connected so this change in the relationship of the sun and the earth is special.

Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the earliest British circles, thought to date back to 3000BC in the Neolithic Period.

It may have been a place for buying and selling stone axes, or a place of judgement, council or worship in a time long before electricity, when the changing of the seasons was more important.

Some experts believe the stones are aligned with the midwinter sunrise.

The truth is we don't really know why these stones are here, but the idea that they're here for some greater purpose, perhaps even a little bit of magic, draws thousands of tourists every year to a field in Cumbria.