A tree grafted from one that helped to inspire the wartime diarist Anne Frank has been planted in her memory at the Batsford Arboretum near Moreton-in-Marsh.

The original tree – a horse chestnut - stood outside her home in Amsterdam, but it blew down in a gale in August.

One of three grafts taken three years ago, to ensure the tree lived on, was given to Batsford. Its planting also marked the centenary of the Girlguiding Association.

"The demise of such an important and cherished tree is a very sad event indeed", said Tony Russell, a trustee of The Batsford Foundation.

"It is heartening to know that Anne Frank’s tree will live on through its young offspring planted here at Batsford Arboretum".

Anne Frank, who was Jewish, hid with her family from the Nazis for two years until they were betrayed.

Anne wrote about the tree in her diary, which has become one of the world’s most widely read books. She died aged 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany two months before the war in Europe ended.