Widow refuses to sell garden to protect 500-year-old tree from £45million bypass

Jean Harris, a 79-year-old widow in the Herefordshire village of Allensmore, is refusing to sell her garden to oppose a £45 million road scheme. The proposed link road or bypass would slice through two-thirds of an acre of her plot. Harris is battling these plans specifically to save a 500-year-old oak tree located on her property, which would be destroyed if the infrastructure project proceeds as planned through her private garden area.