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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Barney Davis

Trafalgar Square’s Christmas tree mocked after arriving from Norway: ‘Where’s the other half of it?’

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Londoners have mocked the appearance of this year’s "half-dead" Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, with some insisting it should be sent back to Norway.

Standing at 62ft (19 metres) tall, the spruce grew in Nordmarka, just outside of Oslo, before being chopped down, transported 1,000 miles and unveiled in central London on Monday in a scrawny condition.

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