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Article: Plans unveiled for revamp of stonehenge ; The race is on to end the shame of Stonehenge by improving appalling environmental conditions and replacing a tatty visitor centre in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
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- July 16, 2008
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The race is on to end the shame of Stonehenge by improving
appalling environmental conditions and replacing a tatty visitor
centre in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Heritage chiefs admitted they had badly let down Western
Europe's greatest prehistoric monument over the past few decades.
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge unveiled a scheme to close the
A344, which runs within a few feet of a one of the stones, to partly
return the monument to its natural setting.
She also pledged that a pounds15 million to pounds20m visitor
centre would be built by the time the Olympics come to London,
finally signalling an end to the ramshackle Sixties-built complex.
Five potential sites have been ...