Article: New scheme to end stonehenge shame ; The race is on to end the shame of Stonehenge by improving appalling environmental conditions and replacing a disgraceful visitor centre in time for 2012 Olympic Games.

The race is on to end the shame of Stonehenge by improving appalling environmental conditions and replacing a disgraceful visitor centre in time for 2012 Olympic Games.

Heritage chiefs admitted that they had badly let down "Western Europe's greatest prehistoric monument" over the past few decades.

Culture Minister Margaret Hodge unveiled a new scheme to close the A344, which runs within a few feet of one of the stones, to partly return the monument to its natural setting.

She also pledged that a pounds15-20 million visitor centre would be built by the time the Olympics come to London - finally signalling an end to the current ramshackle Sixties-built complex.

Five potential sites have been ...

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