“At the time I didn’t know of the tree… He told me it was the most famous tree in the world.” Mr Graham said Mr Carruthers had used the string to measure the tree’s circumferenc ...

One of two men on trial for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree told a court his co-defendant had wanted to cut down the "most famous tree in the world". Daniel Graham, 39, said Adam Carruthers ...

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