Cut-down fir tree becomes Sheffield attraction after neighbour dispute

Row over roosting birds making noise and mess in drive of bungalow results in tree surgeon job

A tree cleaved in half has become an attraction in a residential part of South Yorkshire after a dispute between neighbours.

Bharat Mistry said he and his family were gutted" when their nextdoor neighbours asked tree surgeons to cut down half the branches of a 5 metre fir tree that had stood in his garden in the Sheffield suburb of Waterthorpe for 25 years.