Loving the alien
Alan Titchmarsh visits Broadway in Worcestershire to see a quintessential English village. But not everything here is quite as British as it seems. There鈥檚 an alien lurking close by - a horse chestnut tree. It might seem as English as Yorkshire pud. But it actually hails from the Balkans. It was only introduced into the UK in the late 16th century.
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