The organisers of Rockness festival have cancelled the annual event for 2014.

In a post on the company's official Facebook page, they explained that they were "taking a year off" after eight years of the Loch Ness-based festival being in operation, in part due to the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games taking place during the same period.

The Scotsman reported back in January that Rockness, held over three days, that usually draws 35,000 festival-goers but that it was ...