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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Sapling planted at site of felled Sycamore Gap tree removed by National Trust

A man who planted a sapling at the site of the felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland is “devastated” it has been removed by the National Trust.

The almost 300-year-old sycamore was chopped down overnight on Wednesday in “a deliberate act of vandalism”, sparking a police investigation.

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