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Watch “Sheffield Street Tree Protests | Deconstructing SCC/Amey Propaganda” on YouTube
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tree-bound | a sheffield community’s love for its trees
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#SaveSheffTrees Update – w/e 12/01/18
THIS WEEK – Amazing, Inspiring and not much luck for Amey!I t’s been a hectic and sometimes stressful week but not discouraging and very few trees were felled, again. Great business for Acorn who are paid by the day regardless…
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In Sheffield, you don’t have property rights – HuffPost
Welcome to Sheffield, where intruders come onto your property in the dead of night with handsaws, after you have expressly denied them permission to do so. And your council pays for it. This implausible nightmare vision is true. Let me…
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Sheffield’s dysfunctional Labour run council has been exposed | Sheffield Green Party
2017 saw the inner workings of a dysfunctional Labour run council exposed, linked to an unwillingness to come clean on their failings. And offering “fake news” about the Streets Ahead contract in response to tree campaigners. Throughout the year Bryan…
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Alison Teal: Sheffield Council’s prison threats have failed to halt tree campaign – Yorkshire Post
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Excellent #SaveSheffTrees Letters – The Star
May I respond to Councillor Peter Price’s letter, (Your View, December 20), and challenge some of the claims he made regarding the tree issue and work on the Highways. Unsurprisingly Councillor Price attempts to justify the disgraceful and totally…
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The Tree Hunter — Tree Professionals Silence is deafening
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The Amazing Effect Trees Have On Neighborhood Streets – Tales by Trees
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Getting involved in next weeks #SheffieldTreeMassacre
Parking restriction signs went up on many of the roads at risk of tree felling before Christmas, with the restrictions from the 8th January onwards. In addition, there are very strong rumours from reliable sources that Amey have hired additional crews…
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Trees and the steel city, what’s gone wrong? ⋆ All things Arb
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The place where plastic is a dirty word | Patrick Barkham | Opinion | The Guardian
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Sheffield council votes to fell trees planted in memory of war dead | UK news | The Guardian
Patrick Barkham “Sheffield council claim it will cost £500,000 to “save” 41 war memorial trees. They are either (a) imbeciles to accept such an extortionate quote or (b) liars. Which is it?” https://t.co/YWTf2SIDUS https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/14/sheffield-council-votes-fell-trees-planted-memory-war-dead?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true
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Sheffield council destroys Christmas on Abbeydale Park Rise
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Increasingly desperate, Amey and Acorn drop all concern for safety in Sheffield | HuffPost
For the last two years, with the backing of the Sheffield City Council, the multinational corporation Amey and its subcontractor Acorn have been engaged in an increasingly reckless, dangerous, and violent campaign of felling healthy trees across the city…..read on:…
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Trees planted in memory of WW1 heroes to be cut down | Daily Mail Online
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Column: Campaigners will continue to fight for their trees and their festive lights – Sheffield Telegraph
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Bianca Jagger and Ken Loach back campaign to save Sheffield’s street trees – The Star
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Lawlessness on the Streets of Sheffield | HuffPost
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Excellent letter that captures the essence of what the STAG Campaign is peacefully protesting about – Please read!
Dear Mr Blomfield, I have written to you before about the tree fellings ongoing under the Streets Ahead programme. Recent events compel me to write again. The removal of such a large number of healthy street trees was always wrong,…
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Innocent protest to save Sheffield’s healthy street trees turns into a nightmare, as a small group of brave suburbanites take on their Council, the police and a multinational corporation.
We are currently collecting to support the small number of campaigners who are facing court costs after cases brought by Sheffield City Council.
Walk the Heartwood Trail and find Robert Macfarlane’s beautiful charms against harm hung from some of Sheffield’s threatened Street Trees. Designed by Jackie Morris.
STAG - Sheffield Tree Action Groups 