Police have been called in to investigate after trees were hacked down by ‘a group armed with chainsaws’ in a Tameside neighbourhood.
At least a dozen mature trees are believed to have been cut down on woodland off Stalyhill Drive and Wildbank Chase, near Mottram Rise in Stalybridge.
The woodland was first targeted between Christmas and New Year, before a group returned to continue cutting trees a week later, the Manchester Evening News has been told.
Tameside Council has confirmed the land belongs to them and an investigation into ‘alleged criminal damage’ is now underway.
Christine Robinson, a resident who regularly walks in the woodland, first heard about the issue when her husband John returned home from a walk with the dog.
She said: “He stumbled on this crowd in the wood with chainsaws, hand saws and ladders up trees.
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“The next time we went up there we realised what had happened. Mature trees – at…
