A council has been fined £500,000 after a tree limb fell and killed a man walking his dog in a public park.

Chris Hall, 48, was walking his cocker spaniel Benson on a path in The Carrs, a woodland area in Wilmslow, Cheshire, when he was hit by a falling tree limb

A council which failed to act on warnings about an unsafe tree was fined £500,000 yesterday after a dog walker, Chris Hall, 48, was killed when a massive branch fell on him.