Key points Pair joked over reaction to the tree coming down, jury told Wedge of the Sycamore Gap tree taken for 'perhaps a trophy', jury told One of the defendants used a chainsaw to cut the tree, the ...

The Sycamore Gap tree was felled in minutes using a chainsaw and silver spray with a wedge of the trunk 'taken as a trophy', a court has heard. Opening the trial to jurors at Newcastle Crown Court on ...

Two men filmed themselves chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree before “revelling in” their infamy when news broke of the irreparable damage to one of the country’s most treasured landmarks, a ...

Two former friends have been found guilty of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “deliberate and mindless criminal damage”. A video was also taken of the destruction by one of the two men ...

LONDON — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in ...

LONDON — In late September 2023, as the first big storm of the fall was kicking up in the U.K., a malicious plan was hatched to take down one of England’s favorite trees. Daniel Graham sent a message ...

The first saplings cultivated from the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree are poised for planting as National Tree Week gets underway, the National Trust has announced. Five of these new growths will ...

LONDON (AP) — In late September 2023, as the first big storm of the fall was kicking up in the U.K., a malicious plan was hatched to take down one of England’s favorite trees. Daniel Graham sent a ...