An environmentally themed mural by Banksy appeared last week on a London street. The mural attracted crowds, but two days later, it was vandalized with white paint. Following the vandalism, the building’s owner encased the mural in transparent plastic and installed fencing.
The “luckiest postman alive” narrowly cheated death when a huge tree crashed onto a postbox in front of him. Adam Wilson, 40, says he was just “15 seconds” away from being crushed by the 300-year-old oak tree. The postie was delivering mail
The Sycamore Gap tree has sprung new life just months after it was felled in an act of “deliberate vandalism”. Authorities determined that the tree – which once sat in Northumberland framed by two sections of Hadrian’s Wall – was deliberately sawn
Travel chaos has broken out on the overground rail network after a commuter train hit a tree at a south London stop. The passenger train collided with a fallen tree at West Wickham station in Bromley this evening, prompting an emergency scramble from
A homeowner was terrified after a hooded man with an axe chopped down a tree outside his home in a ‘row over birdfeeders’. The three-storey tree was standing In a communal area outside a block of flats in Ilford, east London. Residents
Staff said the individual was captured on CCTV footage hacking down the prized 30-year-old lime tree after sneaking onto their premises during nightfall. And they later discovered that around 50 ‘Ecoplug Stump Killers’ had been inserted into ten more trees, each dating
Fourteen people are injured, two critically, after a tree fell on a rollercoaster in a Spanish theme park. The incident took place in PortAventura World, Salou, Catalonia on Sunday during a period of “strong winds”, according to a theme park spokesman. The
An elderly man has died after a car he was travelling in crashed into a fallen tree in Fife, Scotland. The 84-year-old was a front seat passenger in the car when it crashed. The tree was brought down by Storm Isha in
A charity that supports people with sight loss is calling on the British public to stop dumping their Christmas trees on the pavement as it creates dangerous obstacles for the visually impaired. Dramatic pictures taken from different locations across the country by
A woman was trapped under a fallen tree as Storm Henk wrecked cars and wrought travel chaos, with winds of almost 100mph. Firefighters freed the woman who was rushed to hospital by air ambulance after she was pinned down in Orpington, south-east