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England: 16-year-old boy arrested over ‘deliberate’ felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree
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AFP, the sycamore, which won the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year in 2016, was reduced to a short stump, with the rest of the tree dumped on the wall. The Northumberland National Park authority asked the public not to visit the felled tree.
The tree has been an important and iconic feature in the landscape for nearly 200 years and means a lot to the local community, said National Trust general manager Andrew Poad, according to AFP report. AFP quoted Superintendent Kevin Waring as saying: “the events of today have caused significant shock, sadness and anger throughout the local community and beyond." Hadrian's Wall is a 73-mile (118-kilometre) stone wall crossing England from the west to east coast.
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