It is more pleasant than lying down in front of a bulldozer and in this case it was just as effective.
Well-heeled neighbours of Harriet Green, the former boss of Thomas Cook, thwarted her attempts to remove a 250-year-old oak tree from outside her home in Oxford by staging a tea and cake protest.
Tree surgeons arrived at the businesswoman’s £3 million home yesterday after she won a battle against the council to have the oak removed because its roots were causing subsidence.
However, they were foiled by neighbours who staged a demonstration, holding a tea party in the parking spaces next to the tree that had been reserved for the fellers’ equipment.
Green, 59, was chief executive of Thomas Cook for two years,
