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Summer solstice live feed at Stonehenge pulled over safety fears

English Heritage axes sunrise coverage after people disregarded advice not to travel to monument...English Heritage has pulled a live feed of the summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge after people disregarded advice not to travel to the site.

The organisation said safety reasons were behind the lack of live footage of the neolithic Wiltshire monument at sunrise at 4.52am. Video from the scene showed about 100 people inside the stone circle with a banner reading “Standing for Stonehenge”.

Thousands of people watched pre-recorded footage of the stones on English Heritage’s Facebook and YouTube pages. The live feed returned at about 5am showing a cloudy sky.

Apologising for the outage, the host, Ed Shires, said: “We have been disappointed that a number of people have chosen to disregard our request to not travel to the stones this morning, and that is the reason why we haven’t been able to bring you the pictures that we would have liked to have done.

“It is disappointing to see that happen, but unfortunately in those kind of situations we have to put the safety of our staff members first, and that’s why we have had some interruption this morning.

“We have been told by police that people have now been dispersed and the situation is under control.”

English Heritage did not elaborate on how the attendees prevented it from showing the sunrise.