Our local forests have far fewer oak trees than were present in the 1800s and yet, of all our native trees, the oak tree is ...

The tree is the oldest oak at Bradgate Park, in Newtown Linford, and has a trunk diameter reaching more than eight metres. It would have already been a huge tree four centuries ago when Lady Jane Grey ...

The felling has prompted calls for stricter legal protections for other trees and drawn attention to wider issues ...