Glastonbury organisers have contacted Trading Standards over a website which is claiming to sell tickets for next year's festival at a huge mark-up price.

It is the same website which Radio 1 discovered was selling tickets for Robbie Williams 2003 gigs at over double the face value.

The Glastonbury Festival official website, www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk, is warning people not to buy tickets from anywhere until details have been published on the site. Organiser Michael Eavis has posted this message:

"For the record I want to state now that this company has absolutely no authority to sell these tickets. A license has not yet been agreed with Mendip District Council, and companies like this can only harm the Festival's interests."

"As this site has no tickets there is no possibility that money you would pay over - which seems to include an exorbitant mark up - would go to the good causes that the Glastonbury Festival supports."

A licence has been applied for to hold the event in the last weekend of June. No decisions about the tickets will be made until the licence is granted, but it is hoped that they will go on sale around March 2003.

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Seems common sense that tickets wouldn't be available before the event itself was confirmed but you never know