Message to the council tree fellers: even famous people need to breathe | Patrick Barkham

Though well-known names oppose Sheffield’s tree removal scheme, the protest is hardly a vehicle just for ‘luvvies’In 1985, Neil Kinnock made his most famous speech, attacking “the grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council – hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers”.He was talking about Liverpool but last Friday I visited Sheffield and heard an echo of Kinnock’s oratory from another lifelong