Log in to vote: shortlist for Britain's trees of the year announced

Public invited to choose online from list including haunted oak and sycamore full of shoes

A haunted oak, a sycamore laced with the shoes of celebrating students and a Hackney plane tree threatened with destruction are among the contenders for England's tree of the year.

The Woodland Trust's annual competition to celebrate individual trees and our relationship with them also includes contests in Wales and Scotland, where nominees include a photogenic fern-leaved beech in Port Talbot that has starred in Doctor Who, Songs of Praise and Sex Education, Britain's oldest Indian bean tree and a hawthorn planted by Mary, Queen of Scots.