Dame Twiggy Lawson, Ben Fogle, Bill Oddie and Chris Beardshaw have joined forces with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), The Wildlife Trusts and Hedgehog Street to support its Wild About Gardens Week, running from October 26 to November 1, urging gardeners to save hedgehogs.

Lawson, Patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, commented 'Seeing hedgehogs in our garden when I was a child was a magical experience. Now we all need to help these special mammals – and there's so much that gardeners can do to reverse their decline. You can cut a small hedgehog hole at the bottom of your garden fence, leave wild nesting and hibernation areas, ditch the slug pellets and check that bonfire before striking the match! All so easy to do. Please help these wonderful creatures'.