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A GIANT “Jack and the beanstalk” tree is ruining locals’ lives – but the council won’t chop it down.
Residents in Winchester, Hants, slammed the “grotesquely irresponsible” and “ludicrous” 45 foot high oak.
They say the tree was planted around 50 years ago by a previous homeowner on Canon Street who just “wanted something to do”.
But now it has branched into an “out of proportion” eyesore which overshadows the gardens of nearby properties – where the average house price is more than £600,000.
However, the council have refused to cut it down and placed it under a protection order.
The authorities said residents from a neighbouring street “appreciated” the tree.
The decision has sparked outrage among locals who are actually dealing with the daily repercussions of such an overwhelming tree.
Orla Williams, 40, moved into her terraced Grade II Listed home with her partner around two years ago.
The doctor said after moving in, several residents went to her about the oak.
She explained: “They were concerned that it is getting very large and that it could cause damage to their properties and potentially harm to people if it gets any larger, so they wanted it to be taken down.
“We applied to the council to have it removed and someone came to look at it.
“[The tree officer] said that they want to put a tree protection order on it.”
The mum-of-two also told how an “awful lot of detritus” falls from the tree in autumn and winter.
She added: “We appreciate that the tree is beautiful but it’s the wrong tree in the wrong place.
“It is quite sad to remove something like that but it is only going to get bigger and potentially cause damage to lots of properties which is the main concern.
“The council said they were concerned about removing it because it’s one of the only trees in the area.
“All of the local residents seem to be of the opinion that unfortunately, it’s the wrong tree in the wrong place.”
According to a council report, the tree officer visited Orla after receiving notice from the couple that it was due to be felled.
But he found the tree met the criteria for a provisional protection order, which was issued in February of this year.
A Winchester County Council meeting will take place next week to decide whether the tree status will change or not.
There are nine residents in total who have objected to the order.
Mark Pocock, a retired resident living on Canon Street, slammed the council’s decision to protect the tree as “ludicrous”.
He said: “As trees grow older they become more brittle.
“If it were to fall and damage properties or persons, I would say the responsibility would be entirely with the council – not the owners of those properties.
“I think putting a tree protection order on is grotesquely irresponsible of the council.
“It could be a danger to property and life.”
Nick Goff, 80, said he fears if the tree continues to grow, the roots underneath will damage a medieval wall in his garden, which was built in the Tudor era.
The retired British Airways pilot said: “The issue is that in 10 years time, that will be double the height and double the width.
“It put on six feet last year it it’s going to put on another six feet this year.”
He commissioned an independent report from a tree consultancy business.
The report stated while the tree, which is still a “teenager” is in “good physiological condition”.
But the officer also found it is “a large sized tree in a very small area” and so the tree protection order is “unjustified”.
The report also stated “the possibility of longer term damage to the retaining walls and footings of the adjacent properties as entirely foreseeable”.
“Some guy planted this as something to do 40 years ago,” Mr Goff continued “Now, we have got Jack and the Beanstalk.
“It’s not a historic tree – it’s a silly mistake.”
However, the council report issued ahead of next week’s meeting claimed these concerns were “speculative” and the tree “contributes meaningfully to local biodiversity and visual amenity”.
It added: “It is also the last significant tree in an area of land between Canon Street and St Swithun’s Street, enhancing the character of the conservation area.”
Retired resident Graham Rule, 62, blasted the decision as “irresponsible”.
He said: “We all love trees but that shouldn’t be there.
“The people who want the protection order, they don’t live here – its totally irresponsible.”
Winchester County Council was contacted for comment.
MARCUS RASHFORD has been spotted training on his own in the south of France as he prepares to reunite with Manchester United.
The 27-year-old spent the second half of the season on loan from his boyhood club at Aston Villa.
While there he impressed, scoring four goals and adding six assists, but he missed the final four games of the season through a hamstring injury.
That knock also kept Rashford from being named in Thomas Tuchel‘s latest England squad for clashes against Andorra and Senegal.
Earlier this month the star had been seen chatting to Swedish semi-pro padel star Jaki Palm and a female pal in St Tropez while on holiday.
And since then Rashford has shared pictures of himself getting back to training on his Instagram page.
Rashford shared a picture of him training on some decking with a dreamy ocean view as he lifted a leg up for balance.
Another snap depicted him in the middle of a run, while a third showed him taking some advice from his trainer.
He captioned the post: “Everyday hussle,” alongside a battery emoji, while the location of it was tagged as Cannes, France.
Rashford is said to have met Jaki when he visited Dubai in April to address his hamstring issue.
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A source said: “Marcus went to have rehab for a hamstring injury in Dubai and was introduced to Jaki.
“She then joined him with his mates and another woman in St Tropez for a holiday. It’s all very casual but Jaki has told her friends she’s grown close to him.”
Rashford’s future is up in the air at the moment.
It is unclear whether Aston Villa intend to trigger the £40million purchase clause inserted into their loan transfer deal with the Red Devils.
However, European heavyweights Inter Milan and Barcelona are both said to be interested in a deal to land the ace.
Sources close to Rashford told exclusively told SunSport he doesn’t see a future at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim.
Amorim froze Rashford out of the Man Utd squad in December after he allegedly went on a night out before the Manchester derby.
Rashford has denied that allegation.
However, Amorim appears to be sticking to his guns and is prepared to sell the Carrington graduate to fund his rebuild of the squad.
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LOVE ISLAND’S latest bombshell Blu Chegini says he’s open to anything under the sheets – and reckons the steamy Hideaway might not even compare to his mum’s sex shop.
The cheeky singleton, whose mum runs a well-known adult store in Spain, reckons his upbringing makes him more than ready for what the villa throws at him.
Asked what his parents thought about him potentially having sex on national TV, Blu shrugged it off, saying: “I haven’t really spoken to them about it…
“It’s not something I probably would have gone and said, like, ‘look, listen, what’s going to happen?’
“Yes, it’s something that we’ve been open with our whole lives, it doesn’t mean I’m going in there like, ‘I’m going to do that’ whatever happens, happens.
“They’re going to be supportive no matter what.”
Blu, who’s already turning heads with his good looks and smooth charm, also hinted he’s got high hopes for the villa’s most infamous room.
“I’m keen to see what the Hideaway’s got in store. See how it compares, mum’s shop and the Hideaway.”
So, which will come out on top?
“Probably my mum’s shop, to be honest,” Blu told The Sun.
“They bring in some, like, I don’t know… not the trashy stuff.”
Blu’s saucy background is already his claim to fame.
Speaking to ITV, he revealed: “My mum owns a sex shop in Spain, which everyone knows and is quite popular.
“Growing up as a kid I was laughed at for it, but little did people know that all their parents were buying stuff from there.”
But despite his racy roots, Blu insists he’s a softie at heart and is looking for something real: “Someone who’s family orientated, has a lot of love to give and a lot of love to receive – personality goes a long way.”
And when quizzed on whether Maya Jama would hire or fire him based on his flirting alone, Blu joked: “She’d fire me – but I’ve got the charm to smooth things over with a girl.
“The fact I speak fluent Spanish comes in handy when it comes to flirting!”
Businessman Blu will be swapping his wardrobe of smart suits for swimming trucks when he walks into the villa.
Blu is based in London and currently works as a construction project manager.
He graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2023 with a Bsc Hons in Construction Project Management and works for a firm in the captial’s swanky Fitzrovia.
AFTER tucking into the smoked salmon, pesto and cream cheese brioche handed to me by a smiling attendant, I reclined in my seat while the landscape flashed by.
It might sound like the first-class cabin of an airline, but I’m actually on a Polish train.
The intercity high-speed trains that run from the pretty port city of Gdansk on the Baltic coast down to the stately southern city of Krakow are the finest way to see Poland.
And a first-class ticket, complete with food, drink and a rolling vista of wonderful views, costs around £40 for the 300-mile journey.
The British equivalent would be taking a train from London to Glasgow. But you’d need to add a zero to the price at peak times.
Gdansk wears its history lightly but respectfully.
This is where World War Two started, when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombed the port of what was then called Danzig.
There’s a huge museum in a slanting building dedicated to the conflict (muzeum1939.pl/en), which takes pains to concentrate on witness testimonies from ordinary Polish citizens who lived through the war.
The sheer size of the tank that sits on a recreated city street puts paid to any Hollywood notions of war being anything other than an exercise in terror.
Gdansk’s nightlife is every bit as lively as you would expect from a port city, but the cliché of rough sailors’ pubs has long gone. The Mercure Hotel offers knockout cocktails in its chic bar, while I also sampled sublime local vodkas to a DJ soundtrack amid the battered Chesterfield sofas inside Bar Lamus.
The train south to Krakow takes just over five hours and runs right through the centre of the country.
Leaving the Baltic coast, we passed vast fields of racing green, clusters of birch trees, red painted barns and deserted rural stations with flowerbeds outside.
Arrows of sunlight pierced tapering lanes and turned the glossy, depthless rivers and streams the colour of pewter.
For a country that has seen so much bloodshed, from a high-speed train, the nation looks ordered, calm and reassuringly familiar — like the landscapes of Lincolnshire or Kent from half a century ago.
As I order a glass of white wine, we run through the teeming cluster of Warsaw, with its mowed parks and jumble of new skyscrapers in the background.
An afternoon nap was inviting, but I was once again transfixed by the landscapes as we rolled further south. Ice-cream-scoop clouds hung above stout houses with roofs the colour of strong tea.
I felt I could sit on this train for ever. But Krakow is the end of the high-speed line, and so I made my way on foot into the Old Town — a pleasing maze of arcades and courtyards that meanders past the majestic royal castle and cathedral on Wawel Hill and down to the Vistula River.
Dinner came courtesy of Pod Baranem (podbaranem.com), which looks like a Polish granny’s living room but serves delicious plates of local classics such as dumplings stuffed with cottage cheese and roast veal with mushrooms.
Back at the funky, loft-style Mercure Fabryczna hotel, I fell into bed feeling I needed to rethink my definitions of luxury travel.
You don’t need five-star cruise liners or infinite air miles to travel in style.
A Polish train can make you feel pampered in a way that’s unlikely to ever occur on National Rail.
GETTING THERE: Book high-speed Inter City train tickets from Gdansk to Krakow in advance at intercity.pl/en. Ryanair flies from Stansted to Gdansk from £18.99 one way. See ryanair.com. Easyjet flies from Krakow to Gatwick from £61.88 one way. See easyjet.com.
STAYING THERE: There are Mercure Hotels in both Gdansk and Krakow where doubles start from £105 B&B. See mercure.accor.com.
MORE INFO: See poland.travel/en.