SUMMER SOLSTICE 2020 IS CANCELLED!

'Please don't travel' to Stonehenge warning ahead of summer solstice

The yearly festival at the heritage is cancelled due to the corona virus

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/stonehenge-summer-solstice-dont-travel-4218335

On Tuesday 16th 2 members of STAG: Stonehenge Traffic Action Group will attend a ZOOM meeting with regard to the CANCELLATION of this year's Summer Solstice.   The presentation will be given by Superintendent Phil Staynings and Inspector Liz Coles.   Nichola Tasker, Stonehenge Director and English Heritage security consultant, Duncan Robertson, will also be in attendance. 
We shall be provided with the detail as to what is proposed to prevent people coming into the area in the light of the present Covid 19 pandemic.

There will be NO PARKING at Stonehenge and our question to the police will be to establish what measures will be in place, should these vehicles/people come to the area anyway, and park up in local villages especially Shrewton, as has been the case in the past prior to the current arrangement for summer solstice.
So! PLEASE DO NOT COME TO OUR VILLAGE!   
With the current situation vis Covid 19, you may be endangering yourself or worse.....our villagers who have followed government advice and remained in LOCKDOWN!
The sun rise can be experienced anywhere in Britain, so please drive to an open space and keep social distances......but please do not come here!!!!

Time to holiday in the UK folks!

With no decision for "fixing" the A303 past Stonehenge due until July 17th from Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps....do we think this lot are getting just a little worried about that decision?   Especially with the current situation on Covid 19 recommending that holidays abroad should be restricted - flying in particular.   Will the UK benefit from this advice and will people take to their cars and caravans or motor homes, and holiday in this country making the A303 bottleneck at Stonehenge even more clogged and our lives here in Shrewton even more of a nightmare than at present?   This is what they had to say on a recent post from......

"New post on The Heritage Journal

Still more deceit by Highways England! by heritageaction Following our article highlighting Highways England's use of trigger words, our regular contributor, paulintheswimhotmailcom has submitted the following compelling further analysis of their deceitful behaviour: I think it’s deceitful of Highways England to claim they have the support of “a Scientific Committee of eminent archaeological experts” when they know full well that there is a consortium of 22 world-class archaeologists (headed up by Mike Parker Pearson) who are against the current tunnel scheme. So too are UNESCO, ICOMOS, Stonehenge Alliance, CPRE, FOE, CBT, Council for British Archaeology and over 63,000 people who have now signed the two petitions against the tunnel (one for the UK and one for overseas). Furthermore, Mike Parker Pearson and his colleagues have asked for 100% sieve-rate (the gold standard) in sensitive archaeological areas but Highways England aren’t willing to do anything like that “on cost grounds”. It is very apparent that they aren’t willing to build the tunnel to the archaeological standards that the experts are asking for as they just want to do it on the cheap. However, Highways England are correct in claiming they have the support of “the country’s heritage bodies” as these are English Heritage, Historic England and National Trust. And these three organisations are willing to let serious damage be done to Blick Mead, the western burial grounds and other areas of this World Heritage Site in order to further their own interests in Stonehenge (which they own and make a lot of money from). They are all trying to con the public, and the decision makers, into thinking the tunnel is a historical improvement when the reality is that it will be very damaging to the wider Stonehenge landscape. It’s just deceit and hypocrisy!" heritageaction | June 4, 2020 at 8:06 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/pqlvy-lVq Presumably, "paulintheswim" doesn't  live where we live and as previously stated in this blog....their "consortium of 22 world class archaeologists" are completely out of touch with reality, meaning......someone who is “psychotic” and likely to experience false beliefs, delusions and false sights or sounds known as hallucination!!! This is our update from Highways England on 29th April, on this matter: Good afternoon, I’m just writing with an update on the A303 Stonehenge project. As you know we were expecting a decision to be made by the Secretary of State for Transport about our Development Consent Order application on 2 April.  It was announced today that the deadline for this has now been extended to 17 July 2020.   You can read the full statement given by DfT on behalf of SoS Grant Schapps here. As you may be aware, the Government committed funding for the A303 Stonehenge upgrade in the recent Budget.   In the coming months, we will be working hard to secure a world-class contractor to build the scheme. In the next stage of the procurement process, we will be entering into a competitive dialogue with three international Joint Ventures.  The final award of the contract will be subject of course to the Secretary of State’s decision on our DCO application. In the meantime please stay safe and well.  Best Wishes