Scotland crowns first tree-hugging champion

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Scotland’s first national tree-hugging champion is a 50-year-old man from Rhemore on the Morvern peninsula. Dressed in a leaf-covered camouflage suit, Alasdair Firth won the overall title at the inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships. Events in the competition also included hugging as many trees in one minute and a freestyle round, where contestants had to demonstrate the most inventive way of hugging a tree, said the BBC. There were 24 competitors in total – double the number organisers had expected.

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