A GHOST walk, a Lego model town and a "coffee and blogging meet-up" will be among the novel attractions at this year's Wantage Summer Festival.

The month-long celebration of local arts, crafts and history returns this June and July after a hiatus last year when it was narrowly saved from oblivion.

Local arts lovers Sylwia Korsak and Linda Baines, who stepped up after the festival's future was in doubt, have now booked more than 80 events for this summer including a ukulele concert in the market place, an introduction to mindfulness and a comic opera.

Ms Baines, from Grove, said: "We are very excited by the fact we've got more than 80 events for this year.

"We've got a ghost walk and a Lego exhibition and we're having a quiz with prizes in the programs.

"We've also got lots of traditional folk music."

Ms Baines said she was also delighted to be running a "digital journalism internship" with King Alfred's Academy in Wantage, offering students the chance to record and film events and publish reports on them.

The month-long knees-up will kick off on the same weekend at Wantage celebrates the Queen's birthday on June 11 and 12, and the summer festival will have a stall at Manor Road Recreation Ground on Saturday afternoon.

June's events will include a guided walk telling the story of Wantage's former canal, live jazz from Pete Allen's Reeds and Rhythm at the Comrade's Club and a tutored cheese and wine evening at Umami deli in Newbury Street.

July will bring a dance workshop, a talk on Wantage's part in the First World War, a flower arrangement class and a concert by The Wantage Band at the Beacon.

This festival will also encompass Dylanfest on Saturday, July 9, – a one-day rock festival at the Sweatbox youth club in memory of 15-year-old King Alfred's student Dylan Edwards, who passed away last year.

The following Saturday will see the grand opening of the new Wantage Tennis Club at Manor Road Recreation Ground.

There will also be a number of warm-up events in May and June before the festival officially launches.

Wantage Summer Festival has previously has attracted thousands of visitors over the past two decades.

When chairwoman Julia Reynolds stepped down last year, no one wanted to take her place and it looked like the festival would not run again.

But at what could have been the festival’s final AGM on April 30, Ms Baines and Ms Korsak stepped up to take the reins.

See this year's full line-up at wantagesummerfestival.com