PLANTERS: 250 hedge plants are now in place at Fletcher Park Organisers and volunteers have planted the last of 250 hedge plants at a Kendal park. Fletcher Park, which sits in view of Kendal Castle, had been losing many of its older trees in the past few years and becoming waterlogged in the process. South Lakeland District Council said in 2018 that it had had to remove many of the older trees due to age and disease. But the Friends of Fletcher Park, a group set up after the trees came down, said it has now planted blackthorn, hawthorn, common dogwood, goat willow and dog rose species to bring the park back to life.