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Beautiful words from a supporter’s heart

Unlike an “Arb” today, I’m going to use my words… I really am so heartbroken at what is happening on Meersbrook Park Road (S17) and around my city. These trees have not been lost; they have been taken. Taken from

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Amey and Sheffield City Council Have No Respect for Democracy by Rebecca Hammond and Jennifer Saul

Shockingly blatant propaganda video being circulated The other day (15th January) Amey PLC published a little video on their YouTube account under the title “The protesters have no respect for democracy”. You won’t find it by searching Amey’s YouTube page: you

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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

https://treeboundblog.wordpress.com/

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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

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/alison-teal-sheffield-council-s-prison-threats-have-failed-to-halt-tree-campaign-1-8948259

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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

https://www.tumblr.com/thetreehunter/168480841439/tree-professionals-silence-is-deafening

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The Amazing Effect Trees Have On Neighborhood Streets – Tales by Trees

https://www.talesbytrees.com/the-amazing-effect-trees-have-on-neighborhood-streets/

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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

https://allthingsarb.co.uk/news/trees-steel-city-whats-gone-wrong/#

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The place where plastic is a dirty word | Patrick Barkham | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/18/plastic-dirty-word-welsh-village-aberporth

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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

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a301143e4b0cf10effbb0e0/amp?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&__twitter_impression=true

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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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5153507/Trees-planted-memory-WW1-heroes-cut-down.html

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Column: Campaigners will continue to fight for their trees and their festive lights – Sheffield Telegraph

https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/column-campaigners-will-continue-to-fight-for-their-trees-and-their-festive-lights-1-8895379

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Bianca Jagger and Ken Loach back campaign to save Sheffield’s street trees – The Star

https://www.thestar.co.uk/our-towns-and-cities/sheffield/bianca-jagger-and-ken-loach-back-campaign-to-save-sheffield-s-street-trees-1-8896713

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The Felling – An Epic Tale of People Power

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.

Crowdfunder: street trees legal fund

We are currently collecting to support the small number of campaigners who are facing court costs after cases brought by Sheffield City Council.

Heartwood TiCL trail

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.