The remains of a famous sycamore tree, which stood on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall in northern England for more than 200 years, has found a new home nearly two years after it was illegally felled.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are being sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree - an act of vandalism that caused outrage worldwide

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The two men who mounted a “moronic mission” to cut down the much-loved Sycamore Gap tree have been jailed for a total of eight and a half years. Daniel Graham, 39, and accomplice Adam Carruthers, 32, chopped down the tree in what they claimed was an “act of drunken stupidity”.