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Residents and volunteers have come together as part of a national programme to monitor hedgehogs with the aim of understanding the current population and how to help hedgehogs for the future.

For Volunteers' Week our Assistant Reserves Officer, Kate Ashley, spoke to Nature Force volunteers about what keeps them coming back.

It’s 10.45pm in the car park of Coombe Abbey Hotel near Coventry and I’ve arranged to join Warwickshire Wildlife Trust’s Senior Hedgehog Officer, Dr Debbie Wright, on a torchlight survey.