I mentioned before about the devastation and heartbreak the council caused in my garden last year. My poor Ash tree had succumbed to the dreaded Ash dieback disease, and the hedge between my garden and next door was growing halfway across my window, but there really was no need to take the front hedge out, and they really shouldn't have done it in the middle of the nesting season. There were at least 2 nests in the side hedge.

But after all said and done, I'm glad the council ordered the removal of the Ash tree stump as it took 7 boys and 2 diggers 2 days to dig it up and a low loader and driver to take it away.

I would never have been able to afford it.