Solved ID help needed please

This has self seeded next to my sambucus black beauty but I don't think it's a sucker? Due to the garden being neglected for a few years it is about 8 ft tall
We have the usual sycamore seedlings everywhere, could it be a sycamore?
Any help much appreciated

 

Pictures and text all higgledy piggledy again, sorry and rubbish pictures to boot

 

Sycamore or Ash. Sycamore should have clusters of yellowy green flowers on at the moment (and possibly a few leaves), and Ash are producing reddish feathery flowers.

They look like self seeded trees that have sprouted out of the midst of other plants and just had the tops cut off, rather than digging them out.

 

Thanks @Scrungee The buds, very hard and dark, are just starting to break. They do have a red tinge to them and are very soft. No flowers. The buds are really distinct though, I just can't get a decent photo with my iPad and this glorious big fat yellow sun in the sky

 

Just done a google, definitely ash thanks again @Scrungee

 

Definitely Fraxinus excelsior...an Ash tree.
Buds are very distinctive.

fraxinus excelsior buds - Google Search

 

Just to clarify..the pic above added by Zigs shows the open flowers of an Ash tree.

Flowers can be either male OR female.

Below is female
Stock Photo - common ash, European ash (Fraxinus excelsior), female inflorescences, Germany

This is the male flowers.

https://www.davidkennardphotography...pean-ash-Fraxinus-excelsior-flower-buds.xhtml

 

Sorry shiney.....
There is no other tree with buds like that.
No need to wait for leaves!
It is 100%.....without any doubt....an ASH tree.

Agree.....remove ASAP!