Tears of frustration and grief met the felling of several century-old trees in Lumsden yesterday.
But protesters who chained themselves to one of the 14 Lawson cypresses on the grounds of the former Lumsden Presbyterian Church, in a last-ditch effort to prevent the "massacre", say they are not giving up the wider fight just yet.
The fight to save the 130-year-old trees — planted about the time the church was built in 1891 — began last year.
