Virgin Media contractors sliced through the roots of the forty-foot lime in Torquay during work in March.
Torbay Council decided it was too dangerous to leave the 80-year old tree and is in talks with Virgin Media to replace it.
Decades old South Devon tree comes down after roots were cut
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