A petition to save a 550-year-old tree that campaigners say has links to naturalist Charles Darwin, has been handed into Downing Street.
While Shropshire Council has said there is no evidence to link oak tree and father of the theory of evolution by natural selection, but campaigners say the tree should be afforded protection.
The Darwin Oak with 102 people gather for World Record Attempt For The Most People Dressed as Charles Darwin At Once, which was also a fundraising effort to fight a legal battle against the Shrewsbury Relief Road
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