Wrecked memorial to be replaced

The hearts of the trees were cut out

A World War II memorial garden destroyed by vandals is to be rebuilt with plants donated by the public.

The site near Langar Airfield in Harby on the Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border, pays tribute to servicemen from 207 squadron who died in action.

BBC Radio Leicester has been overwhelmed by offers of help since the news was broadcast.

Offers of new trees and help to plant them have flooded in from both members of the public and professional gardeners.

Foreign graveyards

Ornaments were damaged and trees ripped down in last week's attack .

Mike Weston, one of those who set up the garden 10 years ago, said he was "heartbroken" at the incident.

Now Derek Cox, a regular panellist on the station's Down to Earth gardening show, has offered to donate 14 new conifers and a Canadian Maple tree.

He said: "I think it is only right that we should look after these places.

"I have been to Arnhem and the schoolchildren there go once a month and maintain all the graves in that graveyard.

"There are hundreds of British soldiers there, most of them only 18, and if they can do that why can't we maintain this sort of place?"