Glastonbury Festival sells out 137,500 tickets in 105 minutes

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The Glastonbury Festival sold out in record time yesterday, with 137,500 tickets snapped up in under two hours.

But despite a system designed to weed out touts, many encountered website and phone line problems.

The £140 tickets went on sale at 9am and just one hour and 45 minutes later the festival was a sell-out.

The website selling half the tickets crashed 30 minutes before the sale began as fans logged on in anticipation and there was further chaos when it crashed again an hour-and-a-half into sales.

Festival boss Michael Eavis increased ticket allocation by 25,500 so that more fans could attend the three-day event, which takes place at the end of June in Somerset.

Gemma Batchelor, 23, from Epsom, Surrey, was one of the unlucky ones. She said: "I kept trying but in the end I just gave up. I don't think I have the patience."

This year's tickets will have photo identification as a weapon against touts. A massive 400,000 people pre-registered with a passport photo and contact details a month ago in a bid to buy tickets.

The Arctic Monkeys are due to headline the festival. Dame Shirley Bassey and The Who are also confirmed to perform but the full line-up will not be released until June.

Mr Eavis said: "It's the fastest time we have ever sold out. The system has worked really, really well and it's a first. Unfortunately there will be a lot of people that will be disappointed."