A once-in-a-lifetime collision of two primarily pagan celebrations will take place across the skies this evening - Monday 20 June

The strawberry moon festival will only coincide with the summer solstice once every 70 years and it will be a chance for the pagan worshippers of South Cumbria to celebrate in style.

The strawberry moon is a full moon, which usually occurs in June, named by early Native American tribes. The strawberry moon simply marks the beginning of the strawberry season - just in time for Wimbledon to stock up for their strawberry and cream treats next week!

The summer solstice is a pagan festival celebrating the longest day of the year. The 20/21 June always contains more hours of sunlight than any other day of the year. This year the sun will rise at 4.45am and set at 10.34pm creating almost 18 hours of daylight.

The summer solstice was always a popular festival because our ancestors made their living tilling the land and producing their own crops. The festival was symbolic of renewal, fertility and harvest.

The most popular place to celebrate the summer solstice is at Stonehenge.

Some pagans and druids perform a fire ritual to celebrate the occasion. This involves people with unlit candles forming a circle around a large central candle and lighting theirs off it one at a time.

So if you're feeling ritualistic in South Cumbria, find a stone circle, chop up some strawberries and cream and enjoy an evening which is forecast to be warm and balmy.