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United Kingdom: Twenty years after protests, what is legacy of Newbury bypass?

2016-01-24 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Blink and you miss it. Just past the Tot Hill McDonalds, 20ft above the northbound carriageway of the Newbury bypass in Berkshire, an old oak stands over hundreds of young saplings. Named Middle Oak by people who lived up it for months in the bitter winter of 1996, it is the only physical reminder of the 35 protest camps built high in the trees on the route of the most controversial new road in recent British history. Middle Oak was the only one of 10,000 mature trees in the path of the road...

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