Anger as latest Banksy vandalised with white paint overnight

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Neighbours have spoken of their frustration after vandals struck in the night splashing Banksy’s latest tree mural with two huge licks of white paint. The elusive artist’s mural drew crowds on Monday, with most struck by the ecological message and visual allusion of green leaves returned to a severely cropped cherry tree on Hornsey Road, north London. But on Tuesday night other graffiti artists silently clambered over the hastily erected Islington Council fences to write their tag in the same green as Banksy, and throw white paint over the leaves. Banksy’s latest piece has been painted over (Barney Davis) The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighbourhood covers the wall of a four-story building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose beside a large cherry tree. Green paint has been sprayed across the wall, replicating the absent leaves of the tree, which has been severely cropped. Amy, who lives with a joining wall to the graffiti, posted on X: “Someone’s vandalised the Banksy overnight. Gutted. Why can’t people let a community be happy without trying to ruin...