STAG Committee member Isabel O’Leary was interviewed on ITV Calendar, about the apology she has received from Sheffield Council for the way it treated her.

The apology from SCC includes “Those mistakes and errors of judgement resulted in a large number of healthy street trees being felled that should not have been. That, in itself, resulted in substantial environmental degradation and loss of habitat and amenity value, and should not have happened.

“We also closed our ears to those people who were warning us about the mistakes that we were about to make as an organisation and that, in so doing, we lost the trust and confidence of our communities.

“As you know, our ‘we know best’ attitude resulted in serious harm to the city’s environment, our reputation nationally and globally, the wellbeing of our staff, and for campaigners who were trying to persuade us to take a different path. For that we are truly sorry.”