Prisoners being sent on tree-hugging sessions in National Lottery-funded scheme
Prisoners are being sent out into the grounds of their jails to hug trees as part of a Lottery-funded scheme.
The Woodland Trust is aiming to identify 100,000 ancient trees and said one of the recommended methods of predicting a tree's age was to measure it by hugging it.
Jill Butler, Conservation Policy Officer for the Woodland Trust, said because many prisons are renovated stately homes, they often had very old trees in their grounds, which makes prisoners the ideal testers.
I think I will save this one for April Fools Day...
