内容摘要：He later joined the Raiding Support Regiment and fought in Italy and Yugoslavia.

He later joined the Raiding Support Regiment and fought in Italy and Yugoslavia.

Fiona Cropper, 62, lives nearby and said she "knew nothing about it" until after it happened.Mrs Cropper said: "Either side of the tracks, as far as you could see, was a beautiful row of green, and suddenly we came back from a weekend away to find everything was gone... it's just tragic.

"I was absolutely shocked - we understand the line has to be made safe, but... this is totally excessive; everything has been taken away."Mrs Cropper added she was aware of trees with ash dieback disease that needed to be felled, but there were also "countless oak trees and mature birch" that were chopped down.Tara Scott, infrastructure director for Network Rail in the East Midlands, said: "We take our environmental responsibilities very seriously.

"There are clear rules around undertaking essential vegetation management during bird nesting season."We have a qualified ecologist who makes sure that we observe those rules, and all our teams on site are carefully briefed.

"This work is needed to make sure that the railway can continue to offer a safe and reliable service to our communities.

"We are sorry for the concern it is causing to the local community.""It's also interesting to see the paper's findings that climate models likely under-estimate the changes seen so far, but even those models suggest a doubling of the volatility for a global temperature warming of 3C – now looking increasingly likely we'll reach."

The new study adds to the growing body of evidence that a warmer climate has altered the background conditions to the raging wildfires currently burning around Los Angeles.Much of the Western US including California experienced a decades-long drought that ended just two years ago.

The resulting wet conditions since then have seen the rapid growth of shrubs, grasses and trees, the perfect fuel for fires.However, last summer was very hot and was followed by dry autumn and winter season with almost no rain - downtown Los Angeles has only received 0.16 inches of rain since October, more than four inches below average.