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Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford and Rhanie Al-Alas

Criminals to plant 4,000 trees in London this winter as Government seeks to ease pressure on prisons

Criminals are set to plant more than 4,000 trees in London this winter in a bid to help clear up the capital’s air.

Those who receive short sentences after being convicted of offences such as drink driving, shoplifting, domestic abuse, knife possession and supplying drugs are planting trees instead of serving time in prisons.

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