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| Stone Formation Archive 1988 |
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First published on September 2, 1988 ENGLISH Heritage may be asked to pay part of the cost of policing this year's Summer Solstice festival. County councillors agreed that Wiltshire Chief Constable Walter Girven should be given an extra £308,500 to cover the cost of the Stonehenge event. For the third year in a row the event ended with running battles between hippies and police. But police authority vice chairman John Heywood (Dem, Amesbury) said it was not fair that ratepayers should foot the whole bill. "English Heritage invited 1,000 people to enter the Stone," he told the police committee. "We are responsible for policing outside but shouldn't English Heritage start to pay for policing inside the stones?" Coun John Bright (Con, Corsham) said the event was like a party which had got out of hand and likened the hippies to gatecrashers. It was agreed to look into whether English Heritage should be asked to make a donation to the county council. Back to 1988 index |
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