Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree in a "deliberate and mindless" act.

The Sycamore Gap tree's refusal to die may have spared the "moronic" duo who felled it a far longer spell behind bars. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were today sentenced to both serve four years and three months behind bars for chopping down the "totemic" tree.