Sycamore Gap: Britain's Lost Landmark

In the early hours of the morning of the 28th of September, 2023, two best friends took a chainsaw to a remote spot in Northumberland and chopped down one of the world's best-known and best-loved trees - extraordinarily, they filmed themselves committing a crime that shocked the world. As Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are sentenced for the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, Tom Barton tells the full story of what happened that night - he hears from people whose biggest life events involved the tree, those who were responsible for caring for it, and the police officer who cracked the case while also asking the question that's been on so many lips since the world woke up to the news that the tree had been deliberately felled - why on Earth did they do it?