Man Booker judges in St Albans (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Man Booker judges in St Albans

2:08pm Wednesday 17th March 2010 in

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THE panel of six who judged last year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction visited Heartwood Forest just outside St Albans to plant trees yesterday.

The judges, including broadcaster James Naughtie and comedian Sue Perkins, planted 13 Scots pine saplings at the embryonic woodland near Sandridge to compensate for the destruction of trees to make the books entered for the prize.

Man Booker's literary director Ion Trewin said: "I’m delighted that for a second year the Man Booker judges have decided to put something back by planting this open book of Scots pines. May it inspire others in the years to come."

Laura Judson of the Woodland Trust said:" “We decided that Scots pine was an appropriate tree to plant at Heartwood. There are already Scots pines on site and it is the most likely of our British trees to have been used to manufacture paper for printing."