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GuilFest survives, as AEG backs out.

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A Facebook group set up to "Save GuilFest" is celebrating victory after a rival promoter's plans to take over the outdoor venue were shelved.

The pressure group sprang up on the social networking site at the end of September when news broke that Guildford Borough Council was speaking to a consortium, including AEG Europe, about a new music festival on Stoke Park, the same site as GuilFest.

Jim Miles, strategic director at the council, states that the local authority has a legal obligation to receive best value, but acknowledges that GuilFest was under threat because, "only one festival of this type would be allowed on the park per year to minimise the impact on local residents".

Numbers on the Facebook site swelled from 200 to almost 2,000 in a week, prompting the administrator of the group, Ade Goldsmith, to note, "That is pretty significant when you consider it's nearly 10% of the number of visitors to the festival each year. It shows that people in the town care about their local festival."

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