It's one of the world's best known trees, famed for sheltering Robin Hood and his band of merry men as they fled the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Scientists believe the 1,200-year-old Major Oak, the legendary hideout of Robin Hood, has died after it failed to produce any new leaves this spring,

Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers