The new ticket system for this summer's Glastonbury festival has comprehensively beaten ticket touts, Michael Eavis has revealed.

The system required fans to register for the festival - including the submission of a passport photograph - and was designed to prevent tickets being sold by touts.

Tickets for the event sold out in less than two hours.

Festival organiser, Michael Eavis, told the BBC: "I'm absolutely thrilled. It seems to be 100% success. It's probably the fastest time we have ever sold out. Two to three years after we started trying to get rid of touts, we've achieved it.

"And people will be able to keep their tickets for ever and ever because we won't need to tear them in half any more. It'll be a great keepsake."