Stonehenge bug crisis is finally solved by bio-warfare

From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK) | Date: September 4, 2007| Author: Tristan Cork t.cork@bepp.co.uk | Copyright information

It has been a place of mystery, argument and controversy for thousands of years, but yesterday Stonehenge was the site of a new and bizarre conflict.

For it appears that the biggest threat to the ancient stones is not militant hippies, unruly tourists or even the huge row over the lorries on the nearby A303.

Instead it is the cockchafer - a 3in long fly that plagued those who built the stones, and has now returned to cause havoc to the tens of thousands of tourists that flock to ...

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