By Amanda Williams Supermarket chain Aldi is in a battle with environmental campaigners after trying to tear down a 200-year-old tree. Workers at the Ecology Building Society (EBS) have been fighting to save the 98 ft high tree, which is due to be felled by the low cost food chain as they try and build a new store in Silsden, West Yorkshire. Contractors have already started to cut branches from the tree using chainsaws, as EBS staff stood under the tree in protest. The society has half of the lime tree’s branches on their grounds. George Haslem of the Ecology Building Society (EBS), who is fighting to save a 200-year-old tree from the hands of Aldi contractors
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Supermarket chain have started cutting branches using chainsaws
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Ecology Building Society standing under tree in protest against felling
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The society has half of the tree’s branches on their grounds
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Tree is making way for a new store in Silsden, West Yorkshire
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