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Title: TYING THE KNOT PAGAN STYLE - AT STONEHENGE A Northam couple have tied the knot in front of 36,500 people at the Summer Solstice celebrations in Stonehenge.

A NORTHAM couple have tied the knot in front of 36,500 people at the Summer Solstice celebrations in Stonehenge.

Johnny Pope's merry bachelors are far more likely to be involved in crime than some druid bird with flowers in her hair Jeremy Clarkson I have only ever given my children one piece of advice.

A RECORD crowd of 36,500 revellers partied at Stonehenge yesterday to celebrate the summer solstice.

Almost 70 people out of a record crowd of about 36,500 revellers have been arrested for drug and alcohol related offences at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

It figures. Stonehenge left littered with rubbish after 36,500 revellers descend on ancient site for summer solstice Stonehenge was littered with rubbish this morning after record numbers of people descended on the site for the summer solstice.

The summer solstice passed off peacefully at Stonehenge with only a few arrests and litter proving the biggest bugbear from the record 35,000 crowd.

A mixture of time keeping technologies through the ages established when the sunrise was due at Avebury this morning at the start of the longest day of the year.

THOUSANDS of New Age Summer Solstice revellers danced the hula at Stonehenge this morning as dawn broke on the longest day of the year.

The Iranian foreign minister, Manoucher Mottaki, has launched a strong attack on British foreign policy in the region.

"This is an unprecedented gathering of numerous Druid organizations in the West, and anyone interested in exploring the California Druid experience is invited to attend.

Non-fiction: Ronald Hutton has written a definitive work about druids, mythology and our historical perception of them F IRST P OSTED J B lood and Mistletoe is not so much a history of the Druids as a history of "what people have subsequently thought, imagined and claimed about them", said Noel Malcolm in the Daily Telegraph .

"Britain has given the go-ahead for a new 25 million pound visitor centre at Stonehenge and will shut a road that runs alongside the countrya s most famous prehistoric monument The Stonehenge Programme Board has now given approval a oein principlea for a new visitor centre to be built at Airmana s Corner about 1.5 miles from the current site.

Historian Ronald Hutton's "Blood and Mistletoe: The History of Druids in Britain" , the more academic-minded companion to his 2008 book "The Druids" , is now out in the UK and reviews are starting to trickle in.

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The druid protester King Arthur Pendragon defied a court order to leave Stonehenge this afternoon, vowing to continue his protest until the site is open to all.

'King Arthur' evicted from Stonehenge - Telegraph : "A pagan protester named King Arthur has been evicted from Stonehenge after staging a 10 month live-in protest about access rights to the ancient stone circle." ------------------- He fights for the right to touch the stones.

Author: Metro Source: Metro Title: KING ARTHUR REFUSES TO LEAVE STONEHENGE A druid protester named King Arthur Pendragon said today he "had no intention" of leaving his live-in protest site at Stonehenge after a judge evicted him.

A JUDGE has ordered Druid protester King Arthur Pendragon to dismantle his camp at Stonehenge and move out by Sunday Wiltshire Council, which sought the order, said he and his followers were blocking a public byway, which the council, as the highway authority, had a duty to keep open.