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Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent
Wednesday February 18, 2004
The Guardian
Fog buried Stonehenge yesterday. The nose-to-tail drivers grinding past one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world could barely see the stones, lapped in grey Wiltshire mist. Just down the road in Salisbury, a fog of paper and arguments rose around the monument, as the public inquiry opened into one of the most bitterly contested road development plans in the country.
"This is an opportunity that quite simply must not be lost," Charles Calvert, counsel for the Highways Agency, said in his opening statement. There was a barely audible sigh: most of the battle-scarred veterans in the room have been hearing that for 20 years.
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