THE midpoint between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, know as Beltane, was celebrated as the sun rose on the morning of Thursday, May 1 at Battery Rocks in Penzance with Pensans Morris crowning their May Queen.

The annual event marks the traditional Celtic feast of Beltane, which is said to be one of the United Kingdom’s oldest surviving festivals which pays tribute to the ‘fast approach of summer’.

In addition to welcome the arrival of summer, the Penzance May Horns Parade will be taking place tomorrow on (Sunday, May 4).

The event, which is held every first Sunday of May, attempts to drive out the devil of winter, and call in the warmth of summer by creating as much noise as is humanly possible along the Penzance seafront.