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Trespassers on a rain-soaked monument in Wiltshire are causing "spectacular" damage, an archaeologist has warned.
Heavy rain has led to standing water around Silbury Hill in Avebury and very soft ground which is being eroded by people climbing the monument.
Jim Leary, an archaeologist for English Heritage, said that illegal climbers on the sodden hill were "leaving some really rather hideous scars".
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A new management plan for the remote St Kilda archipelago is to be signed by a charity, public bodies and the Ministry of Defence. National Trust for Scotland (NTS) said the document set out a vision for the islands for the next 20 to 30 years.
St Kilda, which lies 41 miles (66km) west of the Western Isles, is the UK's only natural and cultural Unesco World Heritage Site. Delete the scoop?
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