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  Farmer's Strawhenge cruelly burned down
Updated 02 August 2002, 13.59
Strawhenge - no more
Strawhenge - no more

Strawhenge - a hay version of ancient Stonehenge - has been cruelly burned down by vandals after only two days.

The amazing grassy monument was built by farmer Clive Brown for fun.

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He stacks and dries out his 80 bales of hay every year to feed his animals. This year he thought it would be a laugh to stack them like the famous tourist attraction of Stonehenge.


But vandals obviously had other ideas and struck at about 10.30pm on Thursday night.

Villagers noticed flames billowing from the monument, but by the time firefighters arrived it was just a smouldering heap.

And now it's been wrecked, Clive's animals won't have their delicious straw to eat.

Angry farmer

5,000-year-old Stonehenge
5,000-year-old Stonehenge

He is very angry about this.

It was a lot of hard work building the life-size copy of 5,000-year-old Stonehenge, which has just been voted the third Wonder of Britain by children and adults.

But, he says, there's always next year.

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