A FESTIVAL known as Kent's mini-Glastonbury has become a victim of its own success.

The Maidstone Green Fair, which has run every year for the past decade, will not be staged this Bank Holiday Monday.

Organisers of the festival, held annually on the second May Bank Holiday Monday in Mote Park, said they needed time out to complete other projects and would have found it difficult to repeat the overwhelming success of last year's event.

The not-for-profit event, which cost £8,000 to stage last year, is one of Kent's largest music and alternative festivals, attracting 7,000 visitors in 2003.

It has been organised by the Maidstone Green Fair Collective and is independent of councils and other organisations, relying on local help and volunteers to go ahead.

Steve Muggeridge, one of the fair's directors, said: "We are a victim of our own success this year. It requires a little more planning to put things on now and because the last one was so successful it would have been difficult to follow in its footsteps.

"This year, people fancied doing different things and working on different projects, but one thing is for sure, we will be back next year."

Plans are already in place for next year's fair, which will be held as usual during the second May Bank Holiday.