Sex Pistols join festival line-up

The Sex Pistols recently completed a UK tour

Veteran punk rockers The Sex Pistols are to headline next year's Isle of Wight music festival alongside rock band The Police.

The Sex Pistols will top the bill on the Saturday night. The festival runs over three days from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June.

The band, whose hits include God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant, recently completed a UK tour.

The Police are set to headline the festival on the final night.

Tickets go on general sale at 0900GMT on 10 December.

The Sex Pistols are also listed as headliners at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlänge, Sweden in June next year.

The band's album Never Mind The Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols caused uproar when it was released in October 1977.

But it was one of the defining records of the punk movement and is now recognised as one of the most influential albums in rock history.

Radiohead are also rumoured to be playing the Isle of Wight next year but it has yet to be confirmed.

The Police reformed earlier this year and embarked on a successful world tour.

The tour is set to continue next year with the band heading for New Zealand, Australia and Japan before returning to Europe in June.