Campaigners have saved 3 magnificent trees from threat by insurer

Campaigners have succeeded in saving three "magnificent" protected city centre trees.

An insurance company wanted to fell the 125-year-old plane trees in Cambridge, claiming they were affecting the foundations of a house.

But Cambridge City councillors voted unanimously to save them, saying their "special and outstanding contribution" outweighed the reasons to fell them.

James Littlewood, from the conservation charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future, said: "It's one of the few green spaces in this area of Cambridge, it's really important to local people."

"If we can't protect these trees, which are so important to the local community, then that really places any other tree in our city under threat," he added.

Read the full BBC article here.