Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled over on Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday. Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, have been charged with causing criminal damage to the iconic Sycamore Gap tree last September. Gary Fothergill, specialist prosecutor for CPS North East’s Complex Casework Unit, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Northumbria Police to charge Daniel Graham
A furious row over tree branches has erupted between neighbours in a quiet leafy Surrey suburbs. Sue Croft reported her neighbours to Surrey Police after they cut back her tree and “pulled down her fence” without her permission. Sarah Davis, a 40-year-old
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