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The monster hedge on the Bathurst Estate in the Cotswolds has had its annual trim after growing over 40ft. It took two men around 80 working hours on top of a cherry picker to cut back the 300 year-old giant. They lopped off the top six inches of new growth, removing nearly a tonne of clippings which are used to produce a life-saving cancer drug. They are sold to pharmaceutical companies who use yew extract as a key ingredient of Docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug used for breast, ovarian and lung c
