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UK - Building of huge £2bn Paramount theme park halted by colony of rare spiders
Plans for a giant new £2bn theme park set to rival Disneyland Paris have been derailed - thanks to a colony of rare jumping spiders.
The theme park will be twice the size of the Olympic Park, will create 27,000 jobs and be the third biggest theme park in the world - only if the special arachnids are removed.
An environmental audit of the 872-acre brownfield site in the Swanscombe Peninsula, Kent, has found it is one of two sites in the UK where the critters dwell. The spiders are protected on a biodiversity priority species list.
London Resort Company Holdings, the consortium behind the Paramount theme park will now have to find a new home for the colony.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paramount-theme-park-threaten-spiders-140757735.html#vO64Dgf
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