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The government has given the go—ahead for a controversial new tunnel alongside stonehenge — more than 30 years after it was first proposed. duncan kennedy reports. its one of the busiest roads next to one of the greatest monuments. for decades, the debate has raged over what to do with the a303 alongside this world heritage site. now, the government has ruled that the a303 is to be buried into a tunnel, creating a traffic free landscape. the decision has been welcomed by english heritage, wh...

Itself, and it is noisy, it is congested and it is dangerous. what this scheme will do by tunnelling the road will restore the ancient landscape around stonehenge. stonehenge is a monument that actually is part of a great prehistoric commemoratives landscape and at the moment the connections between the stones and the iron age burial cemetery is on the south, the great processional avenue to the site on the south—east are cut in two by this road, so we looking forward to a time when what is no...

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Inspectorate. they took six months at great public expense to go through all of the detail and data and they are running roughshod through their conclusions and unescos and a 23 archaeologists who form the consortium and a great deal many other volunteers and specialists. so why does english heritage, which with doctor stonehenge, why are they describing this as a chance to restore the ancient landscape around the monument? why are they for equipment frankly they willfully failed to comprehend t...

To put the a303 into a tunnel, but the main work here is finally expected to start in three years‘ time. duncan kennedy, bbc news, at stonehenge. football now, and both northern ireland and scotland have the chance to qualify for next summer‘s delayed euro 2020 tournament this evening. both are one win away from a place. scotland face serbia in belgrade and northern ireland host slovakia in belfast, where our sports editor dan roan is. as you say, a huge night of international football in st...

Its no exaggeration to say theyve been talking about building a tunnel here to save stonehenge for more than a0 years. everyone agrees the a303 is both noisy and polluting, but whilst campaigners say a new tunnel will damage the archaeology of this site, the government say it is now time to act. the a303, gateway to the south west, but routed past the richness of this world heritage site. for 30 years, theyve debated how to save stonehenge from the roads noise and pollution. well, now the govern...

Things out and having this two—mile gashis things out and having this two—mile gash is as was said on your piece would prevent that. another key point that has not come out is that lest we forget that the david cameron government said that english heritage would have its grants com pletely heritage would have its grants completely in 2016 when it was mooted in that would come on stream ina mooted in that would come on stream in a couple of years time. so frankly english heritage is a really ...

Its only when you get here on the ground that you realise just how close the stones are to the a303. its just a matter of about 150—200 yards. and this is a road that attracts between 30,000—50,000 cars a day. but some campaigners have fought for years to stop a tunnel, saying it will damage the archaeology of this unique setting. the landscape to each side of the tunnel will be gouged out into deep cuttings, with dual carriageways, huge tunnel entrances, masses of concrete, major road inter...

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Interchanges to each side of the world heritage site. this is devastation on a major scale. there have been many promises before to put the a303 into a tunnel, but the main work here is finally expected to start in three years time. duncan kennedy, bbc news, at stonehenge. it has been an election of firsts here in the us. the most votes ever cast, the oldest nominee to ever be elected president and kamala harris as the first woman and the first woman of colour to become vice president. as she ma...