Trees destroyed by Storm Ciarán given new life

A Jersey woman who was part of a team that won the Turner Prize has helped give trees destroyed by Storm Ciarán a new lease of life.

More than 350 trees were damaged and blown down when a "significant tornado" hit eastern parts of the island in 2023.

Xanthe Hamilton won the Turner Prize in 2015 for her work to regenerate part of the Toxteth area of Liverpool.

She set up Racc'moder, which is a project that finds new uses for the fallen timber that was brought down by the storm.

It has helped make several tables and work surfaces for a new wellbeing hub on the island, which will be used by mental health charities.

The team set up a social enterprise community sawmill, and Ms Hamilton said: "We need this to become the norm in a time of limited resources and climate change."

She added: "Racc'moder is Jèrriais for repair or mend and make do, and we don't use that enough in our kind of normal everyday life, so this whole place is put together in a Racc'moder-ing kind of way."

The project is also looking for more people to donate timber to make sure wood stays out of landfills and is reused.

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