The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents.
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg intends to sever a strip of headland from the coastline in the village of Sørbråten, in tribute to the victims of the bombing in Oslo and the shootings that followed on the island of Utøya.
But locals have campaigned for years to block the project, which they have described as a "rape of nature", a "tourist attraction", and a "hideous monument", according to news website The Local.
Under threat of legal action, the Norwegian government offered to cancel the project, known as Memory Wound, and relocate it elsewhere. However residents have declined a settlement offer and are now pushing for the project to be completely scrapped.
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg intends to sever a strip of headland from the coastline in the village of Sørbråten
Dahlberg first unveiled plans for the memorial in 2014. He intended to create "a wound or a cut within the landscape" to symbolise the feeling of loss created by the two politically motivated attacks, both carried out by far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.
The 3.5-metre-wide slice would make it impossible to reach the end of the headland ? just across the water from Utøya ? on foot.
Dahlberg has now called for the government to worker harder to find a comp...