Glastonbury Festival will be moved from Worthy Farm to another location in 2019 in a bid to protect the site, founder Michael Eavis has said.

Plans have been outlined to move the event to a site around 100 miles away to protect its current location.

Eavis, who began hosting the festival at Worthy Farm in 1970, said that he has identified a spot in the Midlands, but did not specify where.

"I am arranging for one year off, say every fifth year or so, to try and move the show to a site that's more suitable, I have to say. But it would be a huge loss to Somerset if it went there forever, would it not?" he said.

Eavis told the BBC: "We've got a wonderful product, what we do, and we can do it almost anywhere. I love my own farm... I might have to move it eventually.

"Most people are on side now and it's a wonderful, wonderful boost for the whole of Somerset and beyond as well."

Eavis was keen to reassure festival-goers that the move will not be permanent: "I don't want to lose it forever, no way."