An injunction has been granted to allow the felling of a tree in North Yorkshire which has been the subject of a five-year battle to save it.

BBC: The tree in Irton

Data going back further than a century or two is derived from "proxy" indicators such as tree-rings and stalactites which, again, are subject to large errors.

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