Sarah Vine For The Mail On Sunday

02/07/22 21:41

SARAH VINE:One thing occurred final week that made me slightly unhappy. The 600-year-old Bretton Oak, close to Peterborough, one of many final survivors of Grimeshaw Woods, an historic forest that after coated a lot of that a part of the world, was felled after last determined makes an attempt to reserve it failed. This historic tree, which had stood for the reason that reign of Henry VI, was ripped aside by males with hi-vis jackets and chainsaws in a matter of minutes, to the horror of many locals. Its crime? The roots have been allegedly inflicting ‘structural injury’ to close by housing. Though as one resident identified, that case was debatable. Irrespective of. Insurance coverage firms have been refusing to underwrite the affected properties, and so the person from the council decreed that the oak needed to go. Six centuries of historical past, a residing organism that had outlasted kings, queens, plagues, battle and famine, felled by petty forms.
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