A number of trees, some of them 50 years old, were uprooted in St James Ditch this afternoon to make space for more parking facilities in Valletta.

A crane and a mechanical shovel were used to pull out the trees, with little apparent attention to the possibility that they may be replanted, an eyewitness said.

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