While I’m keen for this story to stay in people’s minds I can’t help but feel this is an entirely empty article. The content and the headline can all be summarised with: “we don’t know”.
The story is “yes we know you want us to just shove another tree in there next week, but we can’t just do that for the following reasons.
It’s sad but just leave it be. What’s lost is lost and cannot be easily replaced or replicated. In another millennium or two there’ll be something else there and those of us around today won’t really have any control over that.
It won’t take a millennium to grow a new tree or trees, if one wants. Even the tree in question had only been there for a couple hundred years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But Hexham MP Guy Opperman said while discussions were ongoing, it was not straightforward as the location is a UNESCO world heritage site.
“In the short term, the National Trust have secured the site and saved seeds,” the Conservative MP revealed.
Mr Opperman said he had met with the director general of the National Trust and Lord Parkinson, the government’s culture and heritage minister, about the tree, which was planted in the late 1800s.
“There is ongoing discussion as to the future of the site and a mechanism for the public to add to the hundreds who have already made suggestions of what we do next,” Mr Opperman added.
The National Trust continues to advise that people keep away from the site, which was made famous in the 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie.
Meanwhile, tributes have been left in memory of the tree in a dedicated room at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre in Northumberland.
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