BBC Two children have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a tree fell in a park. Essex Police said they were called to Chalkwell Park in Southend-on-Sea shortly before 15:00 BST on Saturday. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please visit the source link below...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Masato Hattori An artist’s impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered tyrannosaur ancestor Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur – in the collection of a Mongolian museum – that they say “rewrites” the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied belonged...
Trains between Glasgow and London have been disrupted by damage to overhead electric lines caused by a fallen tree in southern Scotland. Avanti West Coast said all lines were blocked between Lockerbie and Carstairs and services would be affected until 14:00. Some services scheduled to start in Glasgow now starting in Preston, Lancashire, and experiencing...
A well-known Wellingtonia tree in Exeter city centre is to be felled because of safety concerns. The tall Wellingtonia in Dix’s Field, outside the Civic Centre, has started to shed small branches and will be taken down on Monday (2 June). The tree has been in advanced decline for some time, and all of the...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC More than 100 trees were felled at night in Plymouth’s Armada Way A Devon council’s decision to cut down more than 100 trees at night has cost more than £3.3m, a damning report has found. The “shock to the organisation” of the tree-felling carried out by Plymouth City...
A cherry tree at the entrance of a popular park is in poor health and will unfortunately have to be removed. The cherry tree which stands just outside the gates of King George V Playing Fields in Topsham Road, has been identified as high risk to people and properties. Tree experts have identified significant crown...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria Prosecutors said a video was filmed of the moment the Sycamore Gap tree was felled Two men have been found guilty of the “mindless destruction” of the world famous Sycamore Gap tree, the felling of which sparked international outrage. The tree had grown in a dip on...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria Watch the video shown to the jurors above A second man accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap has told jurors he was amazed at the public’s reaction as he thought it was “just a tree”. The tree had grown in a dip on Hadrian’s Wall...
I tell you what – if there were ever two hateful, whining, privileged chicks on the face of this Earth that I would love to tell be able to tell ‘Shove a sock in it‘ just once personally to, it would be Michelle Obama and icky Ilhan Omar. I am so over the two of...
Watching the Democrat Party’s ongoing exercise in self-immolation has been a guilty pleasure for some time now. Ever since orchestrating a palace coup to remove their titular mushroom and then falling on their collective plastic swords to joyfully follow the Coconut Queen and Court Jester into the dustbin of historical ignominy, what luminaries, sages, and...
Jurors were shown mobile phone footage in court on Wednesday, which prosecutors claim shows the moment the “iconic” Sycamore Gap tree was felled. Body-worn camera footage from the first police officer at the scene was also shown at Newcastle Crown Court. The BBC’s Emma Vardy talks through the footage shown in court and explains what...
Duncan Leatherdale & Evie Lake BBC News, North East and Cumbria Watch the video shown to jurors Mobile phone footage which prosecutors claim shows the moment the “iconic” Sycamore Gap tree was felled has been shown to jurors. The tree had stood for more than 100 years in a dip on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland...
Duncan Leatherdale & Evie Lake BBC News, North East and Cumbria Nick Lewis Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers deny criminal damage Two men accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a “moronic mission”. The tree had stood for more than...
BBC Amanda Dudley says the tree was a “real comfort” to her during the pandemic Whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound is a perennial subject of debate, but in one north London borough, it’s certainly made a lot of noise. The felling of a 500-year-old oak tree earlier this month in...
Woodland Trust The tree was chopped down on 3 April Toby Carvery’s chief executive has apologised after the company felled an ancient oak tree and admitted “we need to tighten our protocols” in a letter seen by the BBC. The pub chain’s owner cut down the 500-year-old oak despite a March 2024 planning document that...