21 h. ago London’s Sycamore Gap? Fury as Toby Carvery fells ancient oak tree

A Tree Preservation Order has been placed on an up to 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Wood, Enfield, to protect it from any further damage

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23 h. ago London’s Sycamore Gap? Toby Carvery admits to felling of ancient oak tree amid uproar

A Tree Preservation Order has been placed on an up to 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Wood, Enfield, to protect it from any further damage

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27 h. ago ‘Loss for the nation’: Is this ancient, felled oak tree London’s Sycamore Gap?

Enfield council has reported the ‘criminal’ felling of an ancient oak tree in Whitewebbs Wood in London to police

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29 h. ago London’s Sycamore Gap? Police called in to investigate ‘criminal’ felling of ancient oak tree amid uproar

A Tree Preservation Order has been placed on the 300-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Wood, Enfield, to protect it from any further damage

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34 h. ago The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 yearsNobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of 4 September 1990, but everyone remembers the girl. Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Portbou, was visible to anyone looking up from the beach or across from the opposite hillside. She was barefoot, with grey-blue eyes and thick chestnut-brown hair. She wore blue dungarees over a turquoise green shirt.Portbou, squeezed into a cauldron-like Mediterranean cove, had only 2,000 inhabitants but plenty of police officers. In these years before the Schengen agreement, guards were stationed on the French border but these officers were experts in immigration and smuggling, not violent deaths. Instead, Enrique Gómez, a 35-year-old investigator from the Guardia Civil police force was called i...

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1 week ago Man found dead near popular kids' playground as cops launch investigation

Police in Gloucester are now investigating, after they were called to Hempsted earlier this week after a local resident discovered a man's body close to a children's playground

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3 w. ago Stephen Port: Disturbing clue serial killer left on laptop that police completely missed

Stephen Port is one of the country's most notorious serial killers, with his spree of murders calling the competency of the police's investigation into question

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