The Holy Thorn …

This article from the Daily Maul has to be one of the funniest I have read this year . The headline claims 2,000 year old tree cut down but then tells you in the body of the article that the tree was planted in 1951! Followed by …

The sequel … (can you stand this?) … It’s a miracle!

Move forward three months and the tree is bursting into bud again – well it would do, Crategus Monogyna Bi flora is a hedging plant …

There are two snapshots of newspaper pages here so they may take a while to download, relative to your connection speed …