Holy Thorn hacked down

One of the Holy Thorn trees round Glastonbury Tor was cut down by vandals overnight in early December. This is/was the most famous of the Holy Thorns, on Wearyall Hill, the one believed by (fairly modern) folklore to be the descendant of an original hawthorn planted by Joseph of Arimathea during his putative wanderings around the West Country. For the full story see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11957440