Vandals rip newly planted trees out of the ground

Volunteers planted 400 trees at Howden Marsh on Sunday

Trees planted by a group of volunteers have been vandalised within 24 hours.

The 400 trees were planted at Howden Marsh, East Yorkshire, on Sunday morning – but some of them had been ripped out of the ground by Monday.

Howden Town Council said some of the canes used to keep the trees in place had been stuffed in the holes of birdboxes, which had been installed by Scouts a week before.

The council said the trees that had been damaged were left "in no state to grow".

The damage was found on Monday

In a statement, it said: "It's really sad that this has happened – the damaged trees were young and now in no state to grow and the potential risk to birds using the birdboxes where the holes had been filled in is so unfair.

"We will work to save the trees which we can and repair the birdboxes."

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