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The first excavation in 4 decades within the rings will start at Stonehenge on Monday

The two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of the monument.

It is also targeting the significance of the smaller bluestones that stand inside the giant sarsen pillars.

Researchers believe these rocks, brought all the way from Wales, hold the secret to the real purpose of Stonehenge as a place of healing.

The excavation at the 4,500-year-old UK landmark is being funded by the BBC. The work will be filmed for a special Timewatch programme to be broadcast in the autumn.

In Britain, we consume 855 million chickens a year - thats 12 times as much chicken as we did 30 yrs ago. 95% of the chicken we consume comes from Intensive Farm units where birds are grown with no natural daylight, no stimulation and nothing to do but eat and eat for 39 days when they are sent to slaughter.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall alongside Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey have joined up to campaign for better conditions for these birds and a better deal for the Farmers who produce them - They are being squeezed by the Supermarkets to produce as much food for as little cost as possible.

Yesterday was Buy Nothing Day. The majority of people don’t know about it, it’s been going for some years, but the basic idea is that it’s a way of highlighting the damage caused by rampany consumerism.

I wrote about it on my own site here and I think it’s a good thing. There’s a link from there to the BBC story all about it. So what do you think–is it as good an idea as, say, International AIDS Day or Breast Cancer Awareness? Comments below always appreciated and diverse opinions are the stuff of life!

It’s the complete antithesis of eBay but Freecycle is a brilliant way of doing your bit to encourage people (including yourself!) to recycle and you can easily avoid your no longer useful (to you) items ending up in landfill.

The idea is simple: if you’re going to chuck something away, and it’s still useful to someone ‘out there’, you just post the details to your local Freecycle mailing list and then others can arrange to collect the item from you. Everything except animals can be offered (so no pets), from sofa beds to packing crates, books to CDs.