London - British Druid priests performed sacred rituals to mark the summer solstice at Stonehenge yesterday for the first time in over a decade and police said they were pleased to have made only 13 arrests.
The Druids had been banished from the prehistoric stone circle during the summer solstice after a 1985 disturbance between police and New Age Travellers.
Yesterday the Druids who claim to modern representatives of an ancient Celtic order of priests, blew horns and chanted while a police helicopter whirled overhead.