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Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after iconic tree at Hadrian’s Wall ‘deliberately felled’

Sky News

By James Robinson

September 28, 2023

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after one of the most photographed trees in the country was cut down.

The tree at Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian’s Wall and close to the village of Once Brewed in Northumberland, was made famous when it appeared in the 1991 Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.

The 16-year-old boy is being held in police custody and is said to be assisting officers with their enquiries.

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