Outcry from residents as historic West Bank landmark faces the chop

After a century and a half of watching a small outpost slowly spread, growing into a bustling town and eventually becoming East London, a tree that has stood as the city’s sentinel was this week stripped of its sweeping branches as a contractor prepared to cut it down.  The landmark Norfolk Pine tree, which sprouted in a barrel two years before the establishment of the Daily Dispatch, was chosen for its hardiness and beauty, and planted alongside the West Bank post office as a two-year-old sa...