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The Tories pledge to plant 30 million new trees by 2025. Let\u2019s hope a lot of them get planted in our cities, because trees in towns don\u2019t just help reduce CO2: as an article in this month\u2019s Lancet showed, they lower the risk of death from cancer and heart disease. Trees in towns keep us both \u201csane and shaded\u201d. None more so than the London plane, \u201cthe scabbed, scarred, unsung arboreal hero of Victorian town planning\u201d. Able to grow in the thinnest soil, these magnificent trees have long adorned our streets, \u201cabsorbing air pollution in their bark before shedding it, along with harmful parasites\u201d. But then came the London chainsaw massacre of the 1960s, when city planners cut them down in favour of smaller, faster-growing trees such as cherries and birches. And \u201cthe butchery continues\u201d. Planes now make up just 1.4% of the more than 8.4 million trees in Greater London. So let\u2019s put that right. \u201cPlant thousands more planes in every town and city in Britain and we\u2019ll all breathe easier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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