Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What started out as a small protest escalated into a decade-long struggle between the council and hundreds of ordinary people who decided to take radical action to save their city’s trees. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:18.0	Chainsours, disguises and Toxic Tea, The Battle for Sheffield's Trees by Samira Shackle.
1:31.0	One, Pothole City. 1. Pot Hole City
1:36.0	Looking back now, it is hard to pinpoint the moment when things got totally out of control. It might have been when council contractors teamed up with
1:46.7	police for an operation that Nick Clegg, then the MP for Sheffield Hallam, later described as something you'd expect to see in Putin's Russia.
1:57.1	It might have been when the council received a letter from the Environment Minister Michael
2:02.1	Gove demanding that it halt the scheme and chose to ignore it.
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