Telegraph: On the night of the Great Storm, October 15, 1987, Ray Hawes was sitting in bed nervously watching the trees outside his window. They blew "back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... then one just kept coming forward until it practically fell into my bed.' A huge 150 year-old oak crashed through the window within 3ft of the bed where the young forester and his new wife were sitting. Fortunately, such a close brush with death did not deter Mr Hawes, 57, from clambering up tree trunks for...
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9604744/The-Great-Storm-25-years-on-The-positive-impact-on-our-woodland.html
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