Victory for MPs in fight to save Ypres battlefield

From: Daily Mail | Date: February 14, 2006 | Copyright information

BRITISH peers and MPs have helped save a First World War battlefield from a Belgian motorway.

The site is the final resting place of thousands of British and Allied forces killed in the three battles of Ypres, between 1915 and 1917.

It would have been sliced in two under plans to extend the A19 motorway from Ypres to the Belgian coast.

News of the project four years ago prompted the setting up of an allparty Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefields Heritage Group, with...

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