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Police involved after vandals hack at part of Wollongong's history

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:36pm, first published October 15 2020 - 5:30pm
Two-year-old Lennox Connery is one of many Wollongong children who will no longer be able to climb the old trees' branches. Picture: Anna Warr.
Two-year-old Lennox Connery is one of many Wollongong children who will no longer be able to climb the old trees' branches. Picture: Anna Warr.

Two trees which have held generations of Wollongong children in their branches were hacked at by vandals overnight on Wednesday night and are unlikely to be able saved.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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