A disease which has wiped out 90% of ash trees in Denmark has been found for the first time in mature forests in this country - right here in East Anglia.
Ash dieback is spreading far faster than expected raising fears of an outbreak as devastating as the impact of Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s when 25 million trees died in the UK alone.
Ash trees at Pound Farm Wood near Framlingham in Suffolk and Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk are among those affected.
The latest confirmed cases of Ash dieback disease have been discovered in Bedfordshire.
David Harwood who runs Sandy Lane nursery at Wattisfield near Diss is considering burning 500 young ash trees.
A guide on some of the characteristics of chalara fraxinea, a disease that is targeting woodlands in the East.