RADIO DJ Chris Evans has revealed the first acts for his 2018 summer festival CarFest.

The family festival is back for its seventh year next August at Laverstoke Park Farm, in Overton, and the first confirmed acts include 1980s icons Bananarama, The Feeling, Status Quo, Jools Holland, Peter Kay and The Proclaimers.

Tickets for the 2018 festival went on sale at 8am on Thursday last week with the first musical acts announced the following morning.

Tickets for this year’s musical extravaganza sold out in a record time.

CarFest South will once again return on the weekend of August 24–26 offering the usual mixture of car displays, food, live music and a range of family entertainment.

Also announced for next year, for the foodie fans, Great British Bake Off winners Nadiya Hussain and Candice Brown, along with Joe Wicks and Atul Kochhar will join festival favourite Tom Kerridge in the CarFest Kitchen.

Car fanatics will be able to get their fix with a car bungee that has never been attempted before in the UK, whilst Car-Topia will transport visitors in to the future of cars.

The Car Paddock will also be back, celebrating the best convertibles, coupés, grand tourers, saloons, shooting breaks and sports cars and take a trip to Oktoberfest featuring a display of the best German cars themed amongst a Bavarian beer hall with traditional food, music and entertainment.

This year, CarFest raised £3.1m, bringing the total the festival has raised since 2012 to an £10.5 million for BBC Children in Need.

A minimum of 25 per cent of the price of each ticket benefits BBC Children in Need with all further profits from the running of CarFest also donated to the charity.

To buy tickets, go to carfest.org.