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 accused of chopping down the famous Sycamore Gap tree kept a wedge as a trophy in a felling that prosecutors described as a "moronic mission". The tree had stood for more than 100 years in 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 ...

The family of a man who died while felling trees on a leading stud farm has settled a High Court action for more than €2 million. George Williams Jnr, a father of two, died when the branch of a tree ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has welcomed the guilty verdicts. Gale Gilchrist, chief crown prosecutor at CPS North East, said the tree had stood for more than a century and been an "iconic natural ...

Who would have imagined that the felling of a lone Sycamore tree in a remote countryside of Northumbria region in England would not only result in a countrywide furore, but make international news too ...