Scientists believe they can regrow a copy of the tree which stood for hundreds of years and saw the change over of 40 British Prime Ministers before being felled
Solemn residents in Rye, East Sussex, have today expressed huge outrage over the destruction of the "ancient" cedar tree, describing the move as "a big disaster"
The sycamore, which stood in a dip along Hadrian s Wall in Northumberland for 300 years, had been one of the world s most photographed trees until it was chopped down.
Locals in a Sussex town are in utter disbelief after discovering the uprooted 40ft tree, just a week after the famous Sycamore Gap tree in Scotland was felled.