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Old 16-07-2025, 00:08   #70
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Re: Pair guilty of cutting down Sycamore Gap tree

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
Nothing special about the tree. In any other location or even just viewed from a different angle, it's just a tree. A clue is in the term "Gap". It's the "gap" that makes it anything.
Is there any evidence that many people knew about it before the appearance in the film?
No such evidence is required.

It has a value well in excess of £5k *now* - prosecution and defence agreed so. That’s all that’s necessary for the offences to be dealt with on the more serious scale for criminal damage.

It is also relevant that the National Trust and English Heritage have now spent far in excess of this on mitigating measures.
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