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Greater than 100 bushes planted on Newcastle’s City Moor in ‚lasting tribute‘ to Armed Forces

Greater than 100 new bushes have been planted on Newcastle’s City Moor in tribute to the town’s Armed Forces personnel.

Plans have emerged over the past 12 months for extra bushes to be planted on the massive swathes of open land on the coronary heart of Newcastle, as a part of efforts to make the town carbon impartial by 2030.

A kind of efforts got here to fruition final week, with a set of 105 saplings planted on a bit on Nuns Moor reverse the previous web site of Fenham Barracks, as a part of a collaboration with army charity Strolling With The Wounded (WWTW).

The Freemen of Newcastle, who handle the City Moor alongside Newcastle Metropolis Council and train a historic proper to graze cattle on the 1,000 acres of land, confirmed final yr that “many lots of” of bushes may very well be planted at as much as 5 spots over the following couple of years.

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