Two charged over Grimethorpe incident [read here]
VANDALS have hacked down newly planted trees in Summer Lane park.
Ten trees costing a total of £1,480 were planted about five weeks ago by South Yorkshire Housing Association.
The trees were to replace ones which were removed in the construction of the SYHA’s nearby Newsome Vale development.
But according to resident Tommy Desmond, who lives near to the planting site, the trees only survived three days before six of them were broken and ruined.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
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