Last September, the British people woke to a crime that seemed to echo across the United Kingdom.
The Sycamore Gap Tree, which grew in a dip of Hadrian’s Wall, had been cut down overnight; a well-known icon of northern England, it had been made internationally famous by several Hollywood films.
For what reason vandals committed this crime, no one seems to really know.
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