Saplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are being given to charities, groups and individuals as “trees of hope”.

A charity set up to remember murdered schoolgirl Holly Newton in Hexham, Northumberland, and The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease in Leeds are among 49 recipients across the UK.

Each sapling represents a foot in height of the tree, which stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall and was cut down in September 2023.