In a letter to the town council, he said: "...the Lord Lieutenant Mrs Tia Jones has asked me to look for a suitable site within Powys for the planting of a tree to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III and I can think of no better place for the tree to be planted than in Newtown."
He added: "...it might be a suitable opportunity to request one of the Black Poplar cuttings from the Gravel car park tree which the town council have, I believe, taken to use as Coronation Tree to preserve this tree's genetics,a dn I think it would be wonderful story to tie together the Coronation and what the town council is doing here in Newtown."
Caption: A cutting from Newtown historic Black Poplar tree could become the official tree to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III