Nicknamed the Lonely Tree, locals said the beech on Rodborough ... Jules Jackson, from Stroud, said his five-year-old daughter had called it the "magic tree". "It's a family favourite.

The eventual death of the Lonely Tree is expected to evoke a similar sense of loss as that experienced with its namesake, a 200-year old Scots pine in Llanfyllin, Powys. The original Lonely Tree ...