itemprop=description content=The tree was cut down overnight between Wednesday and Thursday last week, in what detectives have called a ‘deliberate act of vandalism’.
The Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland, believed to have been about 300 years old, was cut down overnight between Wednesday and Thursday last week, in what detectives have called a “deliberate act of vandalism”.
It comes after Northumbria Police arrested a man in his 60s and a 16-year-old boy in connection with the incident.A Historic England statement read: “We visited Sycamore Gap on Friday for a preliminary inspection. “As the government’s heritage adviser, we are involved because Hadrian’s Wall is protected as a scheduled monument.
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