British police arrest second suspect accused of cutting down 300-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall
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A man in his 60s was arrested by British police in connection to the destruction of a 300-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in Northern England. A teenager was also arrested.
The tree, which was considered a landmark, was even featured in the 1991 Kevin Costner film "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves." One British commentator said that he was "sick to the core" over the destruction of the tree.
"I just see this as part of a piece with a much broader hostile environment towards the living world in this country," nature writer Robert Macfarlane told BBC radio. "It was a tree that ashes were scattered under, marriages were made under, and it was a shelter for tired walkers."
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