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Memorial tree dedicated to Jill Dando accidentally cut down by housing developer
The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxDevelopers building posh student homes cut down a memorial tree for murdered TV presenter Jill Dando by mistake.The student complex on the former BBC studios, where the Crimewatch star started her career, was only approved if developers agreed to preserve the Acer tree.Friends and former colleagues of Jill, who was murdered in 1999, went there to remember her.It has now emerged the developers preserved a mature walnut tree instead at Walnut Gardens in Exeter, Devon.It is understood a planning report identified the wrong specimen, leaving former colleagues and friends “devastated”.Sarah Harris, who worked with Jill at BBC Radio Devon,