Plymouth campaigners bid to save 130 trees facing chop by council

Local people call for rethink on 12.7m city centre project, and dismiss saplings plan as a greenwash'

• A UK tree provides hundreds of pounds of benefits a year'

Campaigners are working to save more than 130 mature trees from being chopped down by Plymouth city council.

Alison White, who is running the campaign to save the trees from her kitchen table, is asking the council to rethink plans to destroy them as part of a 12.7m investment project along a popular walkway in the city centre.