THE BEACONS Festival is leaving Craven - its base for the past six years.
Under the new name of Beacons Metro, it will move to Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester and will encompass a series of cutting-edge events.
Film, music, art and food will continue to be at its heart.
Beacons spokesman Simon Stevens said: “Despite the feeling that 2014 was the best Beacons Festival so far, the feedback we received from the vast majority of festival-goers was that the cost of attending a traditional, camping festival was becoming increasingly difficult to meet."
The Beacons Festival’s inaugural event in 2011 had to be cancelled at the last minute because of floods at its site at Carleton.
Full venue, programming and ticketing information will be released over the coming weeks.
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