The Tree Hugging Championships

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It’s Hannah Willow, who won Glasgow’s inaugural tree-hugging competition on Sunday, and is now hoping to compete at the world championships in Finland. The 36-year-old teacher and children’s author did well in the “speed-hugging” segment, dashing from tree to tree in a respectable time, and also in the “freestyle” section. But she really won it in the “dedication event”, where competitors must show “devotion, passion and loyalty” to a single tree. Willow tells The Guardian she enjoyed her “moment of glory”, but admits that her children, aged 14, 13 and 10, are “hugely embarrassed”.