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Sunday, 31 August 2008 – issue 460 • www.maltatoday.com.mt

MALTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE€0.65

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Heritage Malta monstrosity dwarfs Hagar Qim temple

HAGAR Qim, the world heritage site, is being dwarfed by the govern-ment’s ‘visitors’ centre’ which should have been built in the Maghlaq quarry in the vicinity of Mnajdra, and not in the car park next to the Hagar Qim temples, MEPA’s own heritage watchdog emphatically stated before the permit was amend-ed in April.

But now anyone visiting the tem-ples can be expected to be taken aback by the scale of the new build-ing that will host the visitor centre.

And all this could have been avoided had the centre been located in a nearby quarry. Full story page 7 Saviour Balzan page 15 3

Airline tickets audit report imminentAudit report Gonzi commissioned upon Dalli’s resignation to be presented to the House in the next weeks pg 6 3

SPOTLIGHT ON CONSUELO SCERRI HERRERASee back page

MEINRAD BREAKS THE SILENCE OVER PRISON SYSTEM

RESIGN?NO WAY

SAM MIFSUD

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