National Highways says the main contract had already started before the project was abandoned.

Stonehenge is one of the UK's most popular tourist attractions, drawing 1.5m visitors alone last year. But plans to build a road tunnel nearby to help ease congestion have enraged some archaeologists.

The road tunnel has the backing of Wiltshire Council ... in Wiltshire is to be closed for three months ahead of the A303 Stonehenge upgrade, Highways England (HE) has said. The transport secretary ...

Highways England wants to build a tunnel near Stonehenge as part of a £1.7bn ... between Amesbury and Berwick Down are twice what the road was built for, according to the agency.

Proposals to divert through a tunnel the busy road currently running alongside Stonehenge were today welcomed by archaeologists. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announced that the 1.3 mile (2 ...

Planning for a two-mile road tunnel past Stonehenge has cost more than £160m - or £250,000 per metre of road - so far. The scheme, which was approved by the previous Conservative government ...

The Salisbury Journal takes a look back at a busy year of news. In part two, we cover the months from May to August ...

THE COST of the Government's decision to cancel the Stonehenge tunnel has been revealed and it's almost £200m. National Highways said the cost of the cancelled project had risen to £179.2m at the end ...

Both road schemes were proposed as solutions to ... of the transport infrastructure portfolio, cancel A303 Stonehenge Tunnel and the A27 schemes, and end the Restoring your Railways programme”.

The public cost of a cancelled road tunnel past Stonehenge has risen to almost £180m. A request by BBC South, using the Freedom of Information Act, has revealed the bill would continue to ...