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Second arrest after felling of England’s famous ‘Sycamore Gap’ tree

The Sycamore Gap tree that was felled in the Northumberland National Park, the United Kingdom, September 28, 2023 [Lee Smith/Reuters]

Police in the United Kingdom made their second arrest over the cutting down of an ancient tree that stood for hundreds of years near the Roman landmark of Hadrian’s Wall in the northeast of England – an apparent act of vandalism that has shocked the UK.

Hours after a 16-year-old was freed on bail, Northumbria Police said on Friday that a man in his 60s was arrested and is being questioned in custody for what detectives described as a “deliberate act of vandalism”.

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