NEWS: Trees at Cuckoo Corner were "diseased"

In what's likely to be the final chapter of the story at Cuckoo Corner, Southend Council has stated the many of the trees which were chopped down on Saturday were diseased.

Several of the trees, which had all been removed by noon, were found to be very badly infected with the giant polypore fungus, which - the council says - made them potentially unsafe.

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