an ecologist at Queen's University Belfast. However, “we could decide to rewild entire areas with natural forest and that could be better than growing Christmas trees,” suggests the ecologist.

Vandals who caused £45,000 of damage to council-owned Christmas trees in the Derry City and Strabane District over the festive season “want to catch themselves on”, a councillor has said.

Christmas trees made of books, brides' shoes and decorated with baby items aren't common place in the usual nativity story, but for Eglinton Presbyterian Church in North Belfast, these trees ...