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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Simon English

It’s not cricket – trees for axe in deprived area are a Labour battleground in general election

A FURIOUS row has broken out in Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington constituency over a £1.5 million plan to chop down trees that are decades old to rebuild a cricket pavilion.

The trees to be axed, some as tall as five-storey buildings and much beloved by locals, are on Wray Crescent park, just around the corner from the Banksy mural that recently attracted national attention but was soon vandalised.

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