The plans for the mast (Image: MBNL/LDRS) The site in South Queensferry, however, proved controversial. Locals likened it to a “toilet brush”, but the authorities accepted the applicant’s’ proposal ...

Fuming locals have lashed out at a 25-metre-high phone mast disguised as a tree, arguing that it looks more like a "gigantic toilet brush", amid fears it will ruin the picturesque landscape.

A new mobile phone mast has been put up - disguised as a tree. Locals are furious after town mayor, Councillor Vernon Whitlock, suggested the bizarre scheme in an off-the-cuff comment.

A mobile phone mast, designed to look like a tree, is currently awaiting the go-ahead from Barnsley Council. The communications mast, which is 25 metres tall, would be built off of Wood Street in ...