I'm not sure his demand for complete removal of all fences is going to be practicable but his general theme, that the place is still an awful dump and they should get their skates on is hardly unreasonable so I think he has been treated shabbily. The claim they have a duty to keep the track open despite the fact he is hardly encroaching onto it at all (if at all?) seems completely contrived and I wonder if the stuff Baza posted is connected - it seems the minor improvements are going to be delayed yet again, wjth a "study" to be started about them. Why wasn't the study done years, even decades ago???? Is Arthur's real crime is that he is an enbarrassment in view of this latest delay?

I do feel for him. I first went to Stonehenge on Millenium morning. It was closed till the afternoon, (much to the horror of people that had come thousands of miles and couldn't stay till then) purely because the quango couldn't get it's act together promptly after the previous night's festivities. We were so utterly shocked by the disgraceful state of the visitors centre that we went away and returned in a few hours with posters asking people to write to their MPs and Congressmen asking that they put pressure on. Some jobsworths with caps told us we couldn't do it on their carpark so we stood six inches into the road where they couldn't complain. And so was born a bloody minded heritage preservation protestor. Nine and a half years later NOTHING has changed and another person is being moved on to minimise the embarrassment.... It's bloody awful IMHO.