This year's Glastonbury Festival could be the last

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Michael Eavis's daughter, who has helped her father run the event for the last eight years, said the pair had discussed over Christmas the shelf life of the world-famous live music festival.

She said they were treating this year's 38th festival, which will be headlined by rapper Jay-Z, as though it were the last.

Asked whether Glastonbury has a limited time span, she told Orange World: "Yeah I probably do to be honest.

"We had a kind of retrospective time during Christmas, talking about it and whether it's a long term thing.

"I kinda feel that we should ply everything into this as if it be the last.

"It's a risky, risky business and it would be nice to think, to know that it could go on forever, (but) I don't know if that's possible."

Her father, who founded the festival, which is renowned for eschewing commercialism, recently said he wanted to attract younger people because Glastonbury had become "too middle-aged" and "respectable".

Last year, fans snapped up 137,500 tickets in a record time of one hour and 45 minutes when they went on sale.

The first Glastonbury was held in 1970, a day after Jimi Hendrix died, for the ticket price of a £1, which also bought free milk from the farm.