Fergie’s brother takes on Amazon over tree felling

ANDREW FERGUSON, the halfbrother of Sarah, Duchess of York, who runs the family’s Dummer Down Farm where Fergie and her elder sister Jane grew up, is on the warpath with amazon.

He’s alerted friends and neighbours about the threat to uproot a magnificent avenue of 67 oaks and three mature beech trees on the edge of Dummer village, to make way for an amazon warehouse, and is drawing attention to a petition against it. ‘These trees line the old road into the village of Dummer, meaning they are of historical significance,’ it reads.

‘They also are the home of up to 2,500 different species of wildlife. Up to 1,750 houses are being built right next to the warehouse site.’

andrew — the eldest of Major Ron Ferguson’s three offspring by his second marriage — tells me the credit should really go to his wife, Florence, whom he married two years ago, for putting the petition on social media, adding that villagers ‘all want to support’ the campaign to save the trees.