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EXCLUSIVE Unfathomably random death of a 7-year-old in a park raises troubling questions - and how you risk death every time you step under a tree this summer, revealed by BARBARA DAVIES
The old cedar of Lebanon in Southend's Chalkwell Park had already been standing for more than 350 years when, shortly after the end of the First World War, a photographer snapped a group of children sitting on the iron bench which then encircled it.
In the background of the picture postcard he produced, it's just possible to make out wooden struts that, more than a century ago, were propping up the much-loved tree's vast horizontal limbs.
