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Radio Leicester,7 mins

Churchill's Oak Tree under threat

Ben Jackson

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For well over a hundred years the people of Cossington Village have been using Oak trees as a way of marking significant national events One tree that stands at the entrance to the village as you head in from Sileby was planted to mark the death of the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. It's now under threat from a new development that needs a new access road where the oak stands. Ben Jackson went to the village to find out more.

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