Giant’s Causeway | BBC News at Six

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Synopsis

There are coins, inserted into the tiny gaps between one of Northern Ireland's most famous and photographed natural resources, the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway. The coins are causing problems, and now visitors are being asked to keep their spare change in their pockets.

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