
Ministers have said that 100,000 trees have been destroyed to try to prevent the spread of the deadly ash dieback disease.
A ban on the import of ash trees came into force on Monday and an expert tree disease taskforce has been established.
But Labour accused the government of being "asleep on the job" and failing to to act quickly enough.
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