Bioboffin wrote:
Bob Hobden wrote:
How are your local Horse Chestnut Trees? All those around here seem
to be under great stress with all leaves turning brown, dying and
falling off. They have been like it for some weeks and do look a
sorry sight. It's much too early for autumn yet so it must be the
dry year we have
had yet it's now wet so a strange situation and I wonder how many
will be alive next spring if we get another dry winter.

That would be tree blight:

http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59757

Or maybe (now I read it properly) bleeding canker:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-6KYBGV

--
John.