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Sycamore Gap: 300-year-old tree stars in 90s classic Robin Hood movie before vandalism
The Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland appeared in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves before it was felled in what police called a “deliberate act of vandalism” overnight between Wednesday, 27 September and Thursday, 28 September.
In a scene near the beginning of the Kevin Reynolds-directed movie, the world-famous tree - believed to be around 300 years old - can be seen as Robin Hood (Kevin Costner) and Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir (Morgan Freeman) walk along Hadrian’s Wall.
A man in his 60s who was arrested in connection with the felling has been bailed.
A vehicle repair specialist planted a sapling near the tree but it has been removed.
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