Festival boss speaks out after license renewal

Glastonbury festival boss Emily Eavis has promised fans that 'the best is yet to come' for the Westcountry event, after the event's license was extended for another ten years.

The festival was this week granted a license to run until 2024, with a cap on its audience numbers, which will not be increased from current levels of 135,000 at each event. Staff at the festival will be increased, however, rising to 65,000 this year. Following the decision, Eavis thanked everyone who has worked on the event, and promised big things in the festival's future.

"That's fantastic news, it's so good to have a plan that will help everything at Worthy Farm move forward," she said following the announcement. "I'd just like to say a huge thank-you to all the people who have contributed so much to Glastonbury Festival over the last 44 years, I really do believe that the best is yet to come."

The festival will take place on 25-29 June 2014, and the festival has yet to announce it's line-up for this year's event, with the likes of Kasabian, David Bowie and more rumoured to be taking top billing. The festival's future was never really under threat, but the new license means many more years of speculation, rumours and gossip surrounding the UK's biggest festival event.

"The partnership work between Mendip District Council, festival organisers and other authorities, and the dedication to continually improve this event every year, means that this new application has received no representations," says councillor Nigel Taylor of the new agreement.

"This is all down to the effective working relationships we have, and the drive to make this one of the best-run festivals in the world - and this has been rewarded in the past on a national level."

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