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The University of Southampton has been recognised as a safe place for hedgehogs to live and thrive. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has awarded the University a 2020/21 Bronze Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award for taking positive action to provide a nurturing habitat.
Hedgehogs can successfully live in urban and suburban areas, with gardens and parks providing plentiful food supplies and nesting sites. They are well known for acting as gardeners’ allies by eating slugs, snails and other creepy crawlers which damage plants. The small, spiny mammals are also keen ramblers – roaming an average distance of two kilometres in a single night.
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Updated: 09:11, 14 December 2020
A family firm which donated money to charity for each sale over the Black Friday weekend has raised more than £2,200 for good causes.
Ramsgate-based Home & Roost donated 10% for all sale items sold over the weekend, rather than offering discounts to customers.
The team at Home & Roost at their Ramsgate workshop
And the firm, which makes solid wood homes for pets and wild animals, raised £2,270 in the process for animal welfare charities.
Director Alan Brimm explained: I was a little nervous to tell you the truth. Itâs certainly been hard for charities this year, but money has been tight for lots of ordinary people too. I wasnât sure whether customers would be tempted away from us by the discounts on offer elsewhere.â