Woodland Trust joins objection to Kirsty Young’s plan for Scottish island

The broadcaster and her husband, Nick Jones, have faced backlash from local residents, Chris Packham, the SSPCA and now the Woodland Trust. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

First they were hit by claims they planned to cull wallabies on the Scottish island they are buying, triggering uproar.

Now the broadcaster Kirsty Young and her husband, the Soho House founder Nick Jones, have been hit by another hurdle: a formal objection from the Woodland Trust against their plans to chop down scores of trees on Inchconnachan, an idyllic, heavily wooded island on Loch Lomond.