{"id":3270,"date":"2025-12-13T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:38:58","slug":"men-arrested-after-shotton-colliery-christmas-tree-cut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Men arrested after Shotton Colliery Christmas tree cut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two men have been arrested after a Christmas tree which has stood in a village for more than 10 years was cut down, hours after its lights were switched on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The tree, in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, was felled at some point between 22:00 and 23:00 GMT on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two men were arrested after an appeal by Peterlee Neighbourhood Police Team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police said officers were in the process of charging and remanding a 26-year-old man with criminal damage, while a 23-year-old man has been released under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Friday, Shotton Residents Association chairman Steve Maitland said the tree had been put up as a monument to the fallen soldiers of World War One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He told BBC Radio Tees that members of the public were making a sleeve for the tree&#8217;s base, so they could bolt it back up as quickly as possible, &#8220;just to tide us over for Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Men #arrested #Shotton #Colliery #Christmas #tree #cut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested aft&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}