Neriah
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 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: Shopping centre’s ‘worst Christmas tree’ spruced up |
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A threadbare Christmas tree derided as the worst in Britain is to be replaced.
Since the tree was put up at a shopping centre it has attracted barbed
comments and even made international headlines for its less than shapely
form. Now the Forestry Commission has intervened to replace the tree, which
has been on display at the Castle Dene shopping centre in Peterlee, Co
Durham, with a handsome 20ft Norway spruce grown in the heart of Hamsterley
Forest, near Bishop Auckland. Mike Weston, the manager of the shopping
centre, said: “We’ll get the tree up in ten minutes when it arrives. We are
thrilled to take up this offer. I’ve even been texted from as far afield as
Egypt about the old tree, but it’s now destined for recycling into mulch.”
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