Paul King, owner of King and Co tree nursery at Rayne near Braintree, destroyed the trees as he did not want to take any chances over ash dieback.

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Root cuttings have been nurtured in a nursery to provide "clones" of the parent tree.

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Andy Cheek, owner of 80-acre Cheek's Nursery and Tree Farms in West Jefferson, N.

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