Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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from across the world. Northumberland National Park Authority would like to ask the public not to visit the site at this time while we work with our partners to identify what has happened and to make the site safe. Northumbria Police are probing the incident. The force said; ‘We’ve launched a full investigation following damage to the Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland. Officers are carrying out a range of enquiries to establish whether criminal offenses have been committed.’”

In a less reserved opinion, local resident Bradley Windsor, 35, said; “We don’t need the government’s shilly-shally. It is obvious that our tree has been cut down by vermin with no reason other than to instill pain. All that is left to be done is to find them and treat them the same way they treated our much loved Sycamore Gap Tree.”